Hi, I need some help please on the options available for hosting a public facing website on SharePoint 2013. I am aware of the options in 2010 for having an internal farm and using content deployment to publish content out to a separate farm in the DMZ. We wont be authenticating any users on the website (all anonymous access)
1) Is this still the preferred approach for SP2013?
2) Content deployment seems to be replaced by XSP - can you using cross site publishing from staging farm to production (DMZ) farm?
3) What other options do we have for publishing to the www without using DMZ farm? Can we just publish an individual website out to the web? How do we secure the rest of the farm in this way? I don't think web and collaboration content in the same farm is recommended.
4) How do you actually point a public domain like www.mydomain.com to my SharePoint farm? Is it a matter of pointing my DNS nameservers in my domain control panel to the SharePoint server? How does this work for load balancing?
5) What types of device would allow for load balancing the WFE servers in DMZ, and can these devices be set up to allow anonymous access?
Thanks :)