Digital Learnings in Sitecore & Cloud

Sitecore supports having multiple website stored within a single Sitecore instance.   This has a number of advantages for content authors including: It makes it easy to share content between the different sites, and  One DMS database is used for all the sites in the instance it is easy to gather information about users from across the multiple sites and use it to drive personalisation.   However there is a down-side to having multiple sites within the same Sitecore instance, there is one IIS web site containing all the code and configuration files for all the sites in the instance.  This can impact long term support of the Sitecore instance: When you make updates or perform deployments for one site you will impact the other sites in that instance. Whenever the \bin folder or web.config of your Sitecore (or any .NET) site you cause the worker process to recycle, and some deployments (e.g. those requiring breaking code and Sitecore changes across multiple delivery servers) can