Hi,
I'm glad to find this group - I'd love some advice on my first multisite installation please.
Here are the specs:
*English-only
*3 country sites; I'm thinking of using subdomains for them, but what's your experience on needing .au for Australia, for example?
*some common and some country-specific content
*no logged-in-only services/content is expected at this time
*pretty small content footprint
I'm trying to ballpark the site development, and wondered:
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Can I host this on a shared host (one of the posts in this group made me believe no). If not, can you recommend a cheap, good dedicated host?
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What modules & config will help (e.g., separate DBs or table prefixes)?
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What's the impact on site upgrades? E.g., how long would a 6.x upgrade take? Longer than a single site?
Thanks in advance,
Carole
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Can I host this on a shared
Probably. I'm successfully hosting a standard Drupal multisite installation from a competent shared host with no problems. So long as you can point more than one domain name at your account, you should be good.
You mention that there will be "some common and some country-specific content." I assume you mean that there will be some content which you wish to share among all sites. Given that, I think you should take a Domain Access approach. With this approach, you only need one database, and table prefixing is not necessary.
With a standard Drupal multisite installation, upgrade times increase because you must run update.php for each new site (though this pain can be mitigated somewhat with Drush and some clever shell scripting). However, with a Domain Access installation, since only one database is being used, update.php only has to be run once, just as with a standard single-site installation.
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