Saturday
Dec012007
many website, one setup, many databases
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 5:39AM
Hi,
I will need to host abound 500-1000 websites, all of them use drupal,
What I thought was, to make all of these websites point to a single setup of drupal and make them run from there.
I thought of using different databases for each website..
Do you think it'll work? Is there a better way to go about it?
I will need to host abound 500-1000 websites, all of them use drupal,
What I thought was, to make all of these websites point to a single setup of drupal and make them run from there.
I thought of using different databases for each website..
Do you think it'll work? Is there a better way to go about it?
Reader Comments (3)
There's quite a bit of multisite setup discussion at http://drupal.org/search/node/multisite.
Create central database that keeps data about which site points to which host.
For example:
site-a.com -> server1
site-b.com -> server2
site-c.com -> server2
site-d.com -> server1
perhaps in the beginning it might seem like over-kill but it will pay off when you want to move your sites databases from other server to another.
PS: And store that information on cache instead of hitting the central meta-db each time.