hi, i know dnn can handle multiple sites/portals but is there anyone that has actually got a multiple portal dnn installation running ? i want to go down this route but i need to insure that these portals are separate, completely separate aside from the fact they are running on top of the same dnn installation. thanks

Yes, we currently have a single DNN installation running 16 portals of various sizes (from less than 10 pages to one with over 800,000 pages), with great success. All sites are completely seperate, as far as the data/security is concerned. I have heard of others with 100's of portals in a single DNN installation. We have several standalone DNN portals as well, but as far as the administrative ease, the single installation for multiple portals is the way to go. No need to update multiple installations for each DNN release or module release. Just update the one installation and all portals are updated. Using DNN this way has saved us countless hours and headaches. Also, a lot of module developers allow one module license per DNN installation, with an unlimited number of portals. This ends up saving quite a bit of money, which is always nice.

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Jeff Smith
VivoWare, Inc. - Open Source Social Networking Modules for DNN.

Hi Jeff,

can i ask how large (physical size in [m]bytes) your database and transaction log is with the multiple portal site with 800k pages? I'm looking at creating multi-portal single DNN installation on our reseller/shared hosting server but am restricted by db size [ well we have to pay by the size ]. thanks.