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Best practices

Working with a product as broad and multifaceted as Sitefinity CMS sometimes requires more than just guidance how to complete tasks. In this section you can find a variety of best practices and recommendations to lead you through more complex decisions regarding Sitefinity CMS operations and administration.

You can find best practices on all major configuration procedures that will help you plan better your resources and environment.

Client-side optimizations of your site

Server-side optimizations of your site

This section contains:

Best practices: Hosting, deployment, NLB
A list with recommended environment setting and hosting best practices.
Best practices: Configure your project for a production environment
Learn what important configuration and release points to consider for your project in production environment.
Best practices: Upgrade
The best practices provide directions for simplifying and validation the Sitefinity CMS upgrade process.
Best practices: Optimize performance
Make sure your code and application are working in accordance with highest performance standards. Optimize resources, code, and process.
Best practices: Configure the Output cache
Best practices: Add-on development
A list of best practices for setup and development of add-ons in Sitefinity CMS.
Best practices: Testing
A list of all major types of testing and the recommended best practices in the context of add-on development.
Best practices: Authentication
To benefit most of the authentication improvements, you should configure authentication settings properly and verify whether the default settings fit your environment needs.
Best practices: A/B testing
The following high-level guidelines help you avoid A/B testing pitfalls and make sure your experiments are gathering enough data that you can trust.

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