Web content delivery environments | HCL Digital Experience
A production delivery environment is the environment that hosts your website. If you have a HCL Web Content Manager only license, you can deliver your website without using HCL Portal features.
Pre-rendered delivery
Deploy a pre-rendered site when you are not using any HCL Portal features, such as portlets, and your content is static and is only updated periodically. When you set up a pre-render delivery environment, your complete website is converted to static HTML files.
![](../images/wcm_prerendering.jpg)
![Pre-render delivery environment](../images/wcm_prerendering.jpg)
Servlet delivery
A servlet delivered website is used when you do not need to use any portlet-based features such as authoring tools. In a servlet delivery environment, content is syndicated from the authoring server to the delivery server. The Web Content Manager servlet displays the content. Site visitors access the site through a web server.
![Servlet rendering environment](../images/wcm_servlet_rendering.jpg)
Portlet delivery
Web content viewers are portlets that display content from a web content library as part of a portal page. If your presentation is simple, a single web content viewer can be sufficient. However, you can also use multiple web content viewers to aggregate content from different libraries and provide a richer experience for site visitors. A local web content view portlet is used to display content within your web content delivery environment.
![Portlet rendering environment](../images/wcm_portlet_rendering.jpg)
Remote portlet delivery
WSRP support in the web content viewer is used to display content on a remote HCL Portal server or cluster.
![Remote portlet delivery environment](../images/wcm_remote_rendering.jpg)