Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 we can have different DNS for each site collections using Host Named Site Collection feature, instead of following the same URL of the Web Application (Path-based site collection). Host Named Site Collections are the preferred method to deploy the sites in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 as many features are optimized for this. Path-Based Site Collections : When we create a Site Collection in Central Administration under any of the web application default the base URL of the Web Application is prepended and we can add more managed paths as well from manage web applications in Central Admin. So how many numbers of site collections we are going to create under this web application the same path will be maintained. And to have the unique DNS for a site collection we need to use alternate access mappings which, which will not be optimum in certain scenarios .so We can go with creating Host Named Site Collection. As well as we ca...