Building Multisite implementations at scale with XM Cloud

XM Cloud is known for its enterprise capabilities. But how do you architect and build multisite solutions at scale? There is not one answer to this topic, so get to know the right questions to ask before designing your solution for a future-proof architecture. Find out how we built multisite solutions twice with the SUGCON and MVP sites to explore different aspects.

robots.txt with Headless SXA in XM Cloud

There are those features that you always have to implement when coming towards the end of the project and think about going live.

robots.txt is one of them.

In general the robots.txt is responsible for telling Search Engines what parts of the website to index and which ones not. That does not mean that Search Engines care. If you want to read more: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro

Luckily Headless SXA provides that feature so you don't have to implement something yourself.

Call your Site with your own DNS on local using SXA

There are a lot of bricks and pieces on the web how to setup DNS for a local Site in SXA but no end to end description. At least I could not find it. Here's one from A-Z 

Upgrade your Theme and SXA CLI to version 10 utilize all new SXA CLI features even with SXA 9.3

Sitecore 10 has been recently released with SXA 10. There has been a lot of feedback on the fresh SXA 10 CLI and the news are great: 

• new commands to build and upload the whole theme without having to change a file and running the gulp watcher
• a dedicated sxa watch command is replacing the gulp watcher command
• Creative Exchange Live has been updated to run with node NodeJS 12 and Gulp Version 4
• Also JQuery Version has been updated to 3.4.1 

So how can you benefit from all that new stuff while running Sitecore and SXA 9.3?

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SXA equal height of components Smart Solutions in SXA

A common task when implementing a website is to handle the height equality of components in one row even though the content might differ. SXA has an already inbuild solution. 

Powershell Extensions Remote Getting started

With Powershell Extensions for Sitecore you can run Powershell scripts in Sitecore. Also SXA is offering a bunch of Scripts supporting your activities. I recently had to run Powershell remotely. There is good Documentation out there but somehow I missed some pieces that stopped me from using that feature smoothly. So I try to connect the pieces of the puzzle in this blog post.

3 Reasons why... your SOLR Service is not starting

I recently had the problem that my SOLR Service was not starting all of a sudden. So I searched the internet and asked colleages but I had quite a hard time figuring out what the issue was. So here is a summary of possible reasons that you can check.

Scale out Sitecore Infrastructure Fullfill the SLAs you commited on towards your customer

Do you have agreed on SLAs towards your website and authoring environments? When thinking about your Sitecore Infrastructure you have many opportunities to scale out. Let's take a look what we considered in our project.

Setting up Sitecore Roles in a Multisite Environment Prevent yourself from maintenance hell

In case you run several websites in one Sitecore instance and need to distinguish users between those different sites here’s what we did.

They did not tell you... Get rid of inactive users

As any system, also your Sitecore installation will historically grow. And for sure, none of the users will tell you when he or she stops working on Sitecore or leaves the company. Also noone of the local administrators (in case you have some) will tell. So, to keep Sitecore a bit clean you can check for users that are not active in the system.