Planning

Basic architectures
You can set up your IBM^® Lotus Web Content Management™ environment with a combination of authoring, staging, and delivery applications to support both test and production environments.
Secured architecture
Firewalls can used to secure IBM Lotus Web Content Management applications.
Decentralized authoring
Typically a single authoring application is sufficient to manage all authoring activities in most environments. However, there might be some cases when you might want to set up a decentralized authoring environment.
Delivery options
There are several different ways you can choose to deliver IBM Lotus Web Content Management content to users, including rendering portlets, a specialized servlet, and pre-rendered sites.
Planning for a staging server
The staging server performs several important functions as part of the larger Web content environment and can provide a safety net between your authoring and delivery servers. By including a staging server in your environment, you can review changes in the context of entire site, previewing Web content along with other applications or aggregating content feeds from different sources.

Parent topic: Planning for WebSphere Portal