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Web content system overview


Web content system types

There are three main types of web content systems:

    Single environment systems
    Authoring and delivery occur within a single environment. Authoring and delivering content within the same environment can be resource-intensive. Running clustered servers is a common solution for a single instance system.

    Dual environment systems
    Authoring and delivery are split into different environments. Reduces load on both authoring and delivery servers, and allows the authoring environment to be located behind a firewall. Used with externally facing websites, or where we have many users authoring content or many users viewing a website.

    Staged systems
    A staging environment is added between the authoring and delivery environments. The staging environment can be used for user acceptance testing (UAT) or to accumulate changes from the authoring environment before changes are syndicated to the delivery environment in a single batch. Deployed to deliver large, complex sites with many content creators.


Environment types

    Authoring environment
    An authoring environment is used to create and manage web content. Used by the content creators and website designers. An authoring system can consist of:

    • An authoring server or cluster.

    • Individual UAT servers where site and content updates can be tested before the content is syndicated to the delivery environment.

    Staging environment
    A staging environment can consist of:

    • Individual holding servers where changes from the authoring environment can be accumulated before the changes are syndicated to the delivery environment in a single batch. Pairs of holding servers can be used to provide us with built-in redundancy.

    • A complete replica of the delivery environment where UAT can occur to both review site and content updates, and to test the performance of the delivery environment.

    Delivery environment
    Used by the website viewers. A delivery environment can consist of:

    • Pre-rendered sites where a web content site is pre-rendered as a set of HTML files that are then used to deliver a static website.

    • Used by a portal server or cluster where content is delivered by a servlet. Servlet delivery is used to deliver websites containing dynamic content, but do not include any Portal content or applications.

    • Used by a portal server or cluster where content is delivered by either a local or remote web content viewer portlet. Web content viewer portlets are used to deliver websites containing dynamic web content alongside other portlets or applications.

    • A combination of the previous three.


Parent Web Content Manager environments