Configure Sitefinity CMS for load balancing
This section describes how to setup the servers of the load balancing environment in Sitefinity CMS and what other Sitefinity CMS configurations are required to be able to use load balancing.
IMPORTANT: When using Sitefinity CMS on Azure Cloud Services in a load-balanced scenario (including Auto scaling) you do not need to configure Sitefinity CMS for Load Balancing. Sitefinity CMS uses the Azure API to automatically identify the web role instances that must be messaged to invalidate the cache dependencies.
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Set up Site Sync with load balancing
Set up Site Sync and promote content between two Sitefinity CMS website environments, where the destination environment is running in a load balanced setup.
Synchronize labels and messages between the nodes from a load balanced setup
To synchronize the labels and messages across servers from the load balanced setup, use one of the following approaches, described in this article.
Synchronize search indexes
Synchronize search indexes in a load-balanced environment.
Configure the domain used for the sitemap generation
Configure which domain is used in the generation of the sitemap in a load balanced scenario. Use the domain, instead of the IP address of the particular node.
Configure the App_Data folder to be on a shared file location
In cases when two or more developers work simultaneously on the same Sitefinity CMS project, you can set up a development environment for sharing and centralizing the App_Data folder.
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