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When to Create a Site Collection vs. When to Create a Site

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  • Started 3 days ago by Bismarck
  • Latest reply from AutoSponge

  1. Bismarck
    Member

    Are there any good rules of thumb to follow as to when I should create a Site Collection vs. When I should create a site? For every site request we get, a Site collection is created I'm concerned we may be headed toward a maintenance headache.

    Bismarck

    Posted 3 days ago #

  2. EndUserSharePoint
    Key Master

    Youch... stop right there. Let me see if I can get Bob Mixon from MasteringSharePoint.com to handle this one. Bob is the main SharePoint Guru for handling Information Architecture problems.

    Don't touch that keyboard...

    Posted 3 days ago #

  3. Bismarck
    Member

    Please hurry, I need amunition to stop the chaos...

    Posted 3 days ago #

  4. AutoSponge
    Administrator

    Bismarck,

    My guide works like this:

    1. If I have a different SLA from the main site collection, it's a new site collection.
    2. If I have totally different content types or content types that want to work against the core of the main site collection, that's a different site collection
    3. If I expect wildly different content and traffic patterns and I anticipate possibly having to separate it off onto its own server, that's a different site collection

    If you're doing proper database maintenance, having a lot of site collections on disparate databases could be a nightmare for your DBA. That's what should keep you from automatically sprawling site collections.

    There are probably some better guides from veteran consultants, but that's my $0.02

    Posted 2 days ago #

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