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5/5/2008 6:00 PM
 

Have people good experiance with the dnn and running multipple websites from the same codebase/database?

Is there anyone that can tell me if there is a limit to how many individual sites that can be run from one install? Are we talking like 20-40 sites or 100-200 or like more like 500 individual sites from one install? also let me know a little about the hardware for your server like cpu/ram/storage/ etc.

 
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5/5/2008 10:30 PM
 

Hey Will,

My recommendation is always to separate portals based on the business. If you are setting up this many portals for one client -- that may be fine, but if you are setting them up for multiple clients you may want to separate out the sites by client - that way you aren't tied to the same versions of modules, assemblies, DNN, etc....for everyone.

As far as number of portals go - the sky is the limit, i've worked on huge sites that have single portals, dozens of portals, or even hundreds of portals -- the application itself scales -- it really just becomes a maintenance issue and potentially a hardware issue -- hopefully someone else can give you some more detail about hardware requirements - as that is not my area of expertise.

Take care,

Ian


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5/6/2008 6:14 AM
 

Great

Will I be able to have individual domain names or will it only let me run sub-domain of the parent site?
If all sites can have individual URL's I can stock bundles of static sites and low-demanding sites on one dnn innstall. Will make it fairly easy to monitor, whatch traffic and loadtime and add hardware when needed. As long as I have a trusted working dnn install as a base and non of the sites have high resourceconsumption I should actually be fine. Any sites acting like a bottleneck can later me moved easily into it's own singelinstall, right?

 
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5/6/2008 10:27 AM
 

Will,

You can use unique domains for each portal if you wish, it's all about portal aliases at that point, so really the sky's the limit. The typical path for a Win2k3 server is Enter domain name -> DNS -> Server IP -> IIS -> Host Header -> DNN/Portal Alias -> Loads appropriate DNN portal.

As far as moving a child portal to its own site - one way to accomplish that is to create a complete duplicate of the site, and then delete all of the other portals that are unnecessary. This could potentially be a pretty big maintenance issue if you have to do it a lot though so plan carefully :)

Take care,

Ian


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Co-Founder, dnnGallery
Stack Overflow: Ian Robinson
Twitter: @irobinson
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