personally I have not got any chance to work on offloading, someone else might be able to help you

Job Offloading is a good option when there are many assets   

Check out this : http://cqblog.inside-solutions.ch/2013/09/04/consuming-webservices-using-apache-cxf-in-cq5-6-1/

What I meant is, create user in author instance and then replicate to all publish instances. And you can also enable Sticky connection for your second part of your question.

I guess login token replication to other publisher instance will not be a good way because token is created for a perticuler session when user log in. What you can do is to give the registration link to author instance and then replicate that user to other publish instance and give that login link t...

Thanks for your prompt reply Shamdoes this mean those packages were never available in packageshare and any plan to make it available for AEM6?

Hi,Can you please tell me where can I get packages for Elasticpath and Intershop? I could not find in packageshare as mentioned here and here

Please check the below links -http://www.wemblog.com/2013/05/how-to-perform-system-clean-up-in-adobe.htmlhttp://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/howtopurgewf.html

Thanks Sam and Jorg for your help!

Thanks Sam, is it really not possible to apply ACL from standalone java code?