I am setting up a new SharePoint 2013 Enterprise environment. It will be a relatively small farm with a single server acting as Web Server and App Server and a SQL 2012 DB server for the backend. We have around 100 users.
I was attempting to configure My Sites and I noticed the TechNet article suggests that My Sites have their own Web Application. But when I was researching this last month I read a differentTechNet article that said the preferred architecture is to have a single Web Application and use Host Named Site Collections.
I foresee us needing these Site Collections:
- Sites for each department
- Search Center
- My Sites
- Document Center
- BI Center
I know I can accomplish this using a single web application and path based collections, a single web application and host based headers, or multiple web applications and host headers, but I'm looking for the pros and cons of each method.
Users are accessing the site via RDSH servers and we are using NTML security. There won't be a need for a lot self site creation, in fact once it's setup I don't see a lot of site collections or pages being created. Basically I just want the URLs to be user friendly and site navigation to be as simple as possible.
Can anybody help clarify the differences for me?