Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Creating clustered instances for scalability and performance

To improve the scalability and performance of Sitecore environments, we have to run multiple Sitecore instances in a cluster. In this recipe, you will learn a few configurations that are needed to be done before using multiple Sitecore instances in one or more environments such as content management (CM) and content delivery (CD).

How to do it…

1. Keep the master, core, and web databases on a single database server or the same network as all of the web servers should be shared for all Sitecore instances. You can configure databases from the \App_Config\Include\ConnectionStrings.config file.
2. Store media item blobs in database; for this, you must disable file-based media. By default, it's disabled. ...