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title: Deploying websites
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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.
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> - [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).

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Publishing from Visual Studio](https://docs.kentico.com/k9/deploying-websites/publishing-projects-from-visual-studio.md)
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> Deploy your website projects directly from Visual Studio. Offers the option of using _**precompilation**_ to improve initial load times.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Content staging](https://docs.kentico.com/k9/deploying-websites/content-staging.md)
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> Break up the website's development, content creation, and deployment process. Set up different environments for various stages, for example: Development -> Testing -> Content editing -> Production.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Export and Import](https://docs.kentico.com/k9/deploying-websites/exporting-and-importing-sites.md)
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> Export your website with all associated objects and settings, and then import the website to a different instance of Kentico.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Microsoft Azure deployment](https://docs.kentico.com/k9/running-kentico-on-microsoft-azure.md)
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> Deploy your sites to Microsoft Azure to ensure scalability, serve content from a CDN, and get access to other benefits of the cloud.