By Kirk Evans
This post intends to tell you everything you need to know about host named site collections so that you can decide if they are appropriate for your environment. This post is NOT telling you to run out and create everything as host named site collections in SharePoint, instead it is meant to help educate you about a feature that exists as part of the product. Simply put, I heard from some of my customers that there was some misinformation in the community saying to never use host named site collections. This is plain wrong, just as saying to always use them is also wrong. This post explains what host named site collections are, how to use them, and some limitations to consider if you intend to use them.
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