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title: Settings - Web farm
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

| General                                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enable web farm                             | Indicates whether [web farm support](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/optimizing-website-performance/setting-up-web-farms.md) is enabled.                                                                                                                             |
| Update within request                       | Enable this setting if you want synchronization to be triggered with every page request. If you disable this setting, synchronization must be ensured through [scheduled tasks](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/scheduling-tasks.md) or custom code.                 |
| Use web farm database updater               | Indicates whether [database web farm updater](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/optimizing-website-performance/setting-up-web-farms/web-farm-synchronization-mechanisms.md) is used.                                                                                   |
| Web farm updater custom class               | Specifies custom web farm updater class (given class must inherit from IWebFarmUpdater interface).                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Generate servers dynamically                | Specifies whether [web farm servers](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/optimizing-website-performance/setting-up-web-farms/defining-web-farm-servers.md) are generated dynamically on application start. If true, you don't have to create them in the user interface. |
| Delete generated servers on application end | Ensure that generated web farm servers will be deleted on application end event.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Web farm application physical path          | Path to the application's physical path on disk for synchronizing physical files.                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Maximum file size to be synchronized (kB)   | Sets the maximum file size in kilobytes which should be synchronized.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

### Allow synchronization for

In this category, you can enable or disable web farm synchronization of a particular object.