Site Factory
Site Factory provides
a multisite platform for digital technology organizations to efficiently deliver
and govern many digital experience websites at global scale. Ready and flexible,
Site Factory creates a platform to support standard processes for building,
provisioning and maintaining many websites and provides the digital platform
team the visibility, trust, and control for operating global websites as a
service with a centralized, cloud management console.
Effectively, you build and maintain your Drupal codebase to provide your websites’ core functionality
and Site Factory will maintain your server and platform
configurations, providing a turnkey solution for a well-governed digital
platform.
Use the information in these documentation pages to help you begin building,
delivering, and managing your websites.
Key Site Factory features
Site Factory is built on Drupal and also provides additional
tools and services to help you focus on building websites, instead of
how to build websites.
Here are some of the key differences between Site Factory and a
stock Drupal website:
- Multisite PaaS for flexible experience delivery (Platform as a service): You control your own site platform
codebase, using your configured Drupal distribution, with contributed and custom modules of
your choice to build, provision, and operate groups of websites. You can
also use multiple codebases with Factory Stacks and multiple installation profiles.
- Hosting and monitoring:
Site Factory provides a high-availability hosting and monitoring infrastructure across
multiple web servers, with Varnish® caching and replicated database
servers. An operations team is on call 24/7 to test your website and keep
it up-to-date with all the relevant updates and security patches. All of
this is based on the same Cloud Platform infrastructure that powers and
protects some of the largest and most active Drupal websites in the world.
With Site Factory, you can stop worrying about website speed,
website traffic, disk space, uptime, and backups.
- Multisite governance: Define, group,
and manage content and website functionality, policies, and standards based
on digital experiences, locations, and organization structure. Websites are
built, delivered, and managed from the same and different Drupal
distributions.
- Single sign-on, centralized multisite management: Instead of signing in to multiple websites,
Site Factory users can sign in once to Site Factory to sign in to all of
them. This helps users reduce the number of accounts and passwords they have
to keep track of, and it enables Site Factory website administrators to view
and manage all of their websites from a single interface.
- Unified management console: Centralized
website delivery and governance across all Sites and Factory Stacks to
provide visibility, trust, and control across all websites. Includes
role-based user access and site permissions.
- Multiple Factory Stacks: Develop and
share multiple Drupal distributions with dedicated infrastructure to
independently manage groups of digital experience websites. Each Factory
Stack is managed from the same central management console.
- Acquia Support: Site Factory provides
you with access to Acquia support, providing you with professional Drupal
support and guidance, even for custom CSS. Accounts are also entitled to
support tickets, where they can have one-on-one private support
conversations.
