Platforms and sites

The platform

The platform is the tenant boundary. Its people, its records and its switched-on capabilities all belong to it, and a request is checked against it before it reads anything.

The site

A site is what a platform publishes to the public web. It carries:

• Pages, which are drafted, previewed and then explicitly published. Publishing is its own operation, so an edit is not live because you saved it.
• Revisions, kept per page, so a published page has a history you can read back.
• Navigation, as a tree you edit rather than a file you maintain.
• Redirects, per site.
• A sitemap and a robots file, served by the site itself.

Each of those is a route in the sites reference, with the scope it requires.

Addresses

A platform answers at its own address. A custom domain can be added on top, and is served only after it has been proved — see custom domains.