Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Chapter 11. Securing, Scaling, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

In this chapter, we will cover some interesting tasks that you can use to troubleshoot, secure, scale, and optimize a Sitecore solution. You will learn the following recipes:

• Profiling and tracing content pages to find out the slowest operations
• Transferring items from one database to another
• Making security-hardened environments
• Adding multiple publishing targets for scalability or preproduction
• Creating clustered instances for scalability and performance
• Getting high availability of Sitecore instances
• Improving the performance of Sitecore instances

Introduction

On referring to all the previous chapters, you will be able to develop your website as per requirements. However, will this be enough? ...