4.10 How do you Deploy Website Content to a Server Farm?

SDS or Site Deployment Services, formerly known as ContentCaster, is a configurable Java-based application that helps in deploying website content from an SCS Target server to directories on multiple local or remote servers.

4.10.1 Site Deployment Services

SDS is useful when one needs to synchronize and replicate the website content across multiple site locations.

Following are some of the key features of SDS:

• Supports integration with third-party load balancers

• Can recover from system failures even if the deployment operation halts mid-way

• Performs byte-level differencing, ensuring that only the changed bytes are updated during deployment

• Provides centralized monitoring of content updates

• Supports multi-stage deployment as well as multi-version rollback

• Supports automatic rollback of updates or installations

• Highly scalable as far as handling large volume and large size of files is concerned

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