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Sitefinity Web Hosting

One of most important thing to consider when deploying Sitefinity is the Sitefinity web hosting environment. There are million option out there to host Sitefinity application. You can host in shared Sitefinity web hosting, on a dedicated Sitefinity web server or in a Sitefinity web hosting cloud. It all comes down to how much control you like to have on your live site and what is your budget.

If you have mission critical Sitefinity application that you like up all the time even in case of server failure or you need to auto scale the application. Then in this case you have to go with a cloud solutions. With cloud environment you have full control over your Sitefinity hosting server and can setup auto scale and even setup load balancing with your application.

For Dedicated server Sitefinity web hosting it will be more costly to host both Database and Web server. I will not recommencement hosting both on the same server for busy site.

If you have a small site with few users vising your site each month then you can go with shared Sitefinity web hosting but not a good solution.

Sitefinity Sync Error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

If you are doing Site sync for Stefinity and getting an error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”. It does not matter what kind of conetent you are trying to sync you will get this error. Just make sure you have set up Sitefinity to sync based on this doc. http://docs.sitefinity.com/81/prerequisites-and-restrictions.

The mane thing you need to do is make sure Feeds & Notifications moudel is acitve on both staging and production. You can activate if from Go to Administration->Modules & Services and install/activate “Feeds & Notifications” module. Once you do that will take care of you sync issue.

What is Sitefinity?

Sitefinity! What is it?

At Altman Business Solutions, LLC, we have over 20 years of experience developing web applications for clients of all sizes. Utilizing CMS’s from open source applications to custom applications. Today, we will talk about another CMS called Sitefinity and how we helped our clients get to market in a short amount of time with eye catching sites.

What is a CMS?

A content management system (CMS) is an application that helps marketers, content developers and web masters make changes and updates to the site without having any coding skills. A CMS allows users to enter or update information with easy to use workflows.

What is Sitefinity?

We have many choices in regards to CMS applications. Sitefinity is one of the CMS’s that we use at Altman Business Solutions. Sitefinity is developed by Telerik which is part of Progress.

What technologies are Sitefinity built on?

Sitefinity is based on Microsoft technologies that include C# and ASP.Net.

What kind of operating system and web server do we need to host Sitefinity?

Sitefinity is hosted on a Windows server and uses an Inter Information Server (IIS).

What Database is compatible with Sitefinity?

Sitefinity works with MS SQL server express 2005+, MS SQL server 2005+, MS SQL Azure, Oracle and MS SQL 5.0.3+.

Can we host Sitefinity in a Cloud?

Yes, Sitefinity can be hosted in a Cloud.

Does Sitefinity support Load Balancer?

Yes, Sitefinity can be hosted behind a load balancer. You can have a Sitefinity CMS on multiple nodes with a fail over database.

When was Sitefinity first released?

 Sitefinity was first released around 2005 and now it’s on version 10.1.

Does Sitefinity support SEO?

 Sitefinity includes lots of optimization for SEO right out of the box.  For example – URL’s without extensions, manage page titles and descriptions, allow page indexing by search engine and include in site maps.

Does Sitefinity have site search?

Sitefinity comes with site search and you can manage what kind of content you would like to include or exclude in the search.

What is the coolest feature of Sitefinity?

Sitefinity comes with a module builder which allows you to create a module on the fly and you can start using the new module within minutes without writing one line of code. This cuts down on development time.

Altman Business Solutions, LLC is a Sitefinity partner.

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Access to the path Sitefinity/App_Data/Configuration/.. folder is denied

If you moved Sitefinity from one server to another you might run into this issue Access denied on App_Data folder.