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By Boris Mann on
We just took the wraps off of Bryght.com. It's not very pretty right now, but hopefully some of the words there will be helpful in explaining who we are and what we want to do.
Our business is going to be mass-hosting of Drupal sites. This means three separate channels: mass deployment (large organizations/companies/ISPs that want to run/deploy 100s of sites), resellers (developers, designers, and consultants that want to offer sites to end user clients but don't want the hassle/administration of installation and maintenance), and end users.
While we will be offering some end user hosting, we're focusing on the other two categories right now.
Basically, we really believe in the Drupal platform, and think that we can build a business around it that will benefit us and the Drupal community as a whole.
Now let me get to "who is Bryght". We are James Walker ("walkah"), Adrian Rossouw ("adrian"), Boris Mann ("bmann"), and two Drupal newcomers, Roland and Richard (more here [1] if you are interested).
We want to be a good community member. This means working with the community, contributing code, and in general working towards making everyone that participates in Drupal succeed.
Notice I didn't mention anything about custom development. While we do foresee doing custom development for large mass deployment sites (and also contributing code to increase usability in many areas), we don't have the bandwidth to tackle a lot of custom, "one off" sites. We already have a handful of leads from people looking for good Drupal developers, so please do contact us if you want to be considered.
So I'll leave it at that for now. Please contact me directly or use the contact form [2] if you have any questions.
[1] http://www.bryght.com/about/the-team
[2] http://www.bryght.com/contact
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Boris Mann
Bryght Guy
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Props to Boris
Just thought I'd give props to Boris and his team. They've been very helpful in a number projects we've worked on. Good luck with it Boris.
Michael Tippett,
CEO, Phrint.com
When you say "mass-hosting",
When you say "mass-hosting", I think multiple domains on one IP and one Drupal installation.
What would definatly help is a "multiple domain module":
It could be called:
FlexiDomain
MultiDomain
To get this working well, we would need to
1. Associate vocabulary terms with specific domains
2. Have each node associated with a specific domain.
3. Have a separate configuration for each domain.
4. < Insert your comment here >
I got this working a my own CMS, but since I'm moving over to Drupal evantually, I'd love to find a module or create a similar module myself.
If anyone likes the idea, let me know.
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Multi-site
There is already work being done on a multi-site patch that does just that.
(Username formerly my full name, Richard Eriksson.)
Thanks for pointing that out...
Thanks for pointing that out...
Right now, it looks like a "rough edged" work in progress. I'll look into it.
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Depends on how you want it done
Depending on how you want this done, number of domains, your hosting restrictions, it may already be in Drupal now.
You can have multiple domains pointing to different databases. Or you can have multiple domains using the same database but with table prefixes.
I am using this with my domains now and it works perfectly. The same code base runs all the sites, and I use prefixes since my hosting company gives me only one database. The sites will have to share themes because of limitations, but if you don't need multiple themes, this works quite well with the standard Drupal with no code changes.
Of course, this may be suitable to tens of sites, but not a few hundred.
Read about it here, it may be all you need:
http://drupal.org/book/view/276
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distributed authentication network
OK
All this mass-hosting is great. But does anyone know how to
allow only specific websites within your distributed authentication network ?
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That's a good feature request
Basically, an "allow" list for other sites.
We're doing a lot of work on distributed authentication (and profile sharing). It would mean changes to the core drupal.module (and waiting until 4.6), unless it was made a separate contrib module.
Corporate Sites
Hey Boris, add your info to this page, on "Truly corporate Drupal sites"
http://drupal.org/node/view/7443
There's seems to be a shortage of corporate sites, so I guess you're a market leader :-)
not quite yet.
i started that thread to showcase the well designed sites running drupal.
Our current site is quite horrible methinks , but we are getting some design talent in at the moment.
You should check out http://www.urbanvancouver.com for our Dave Shea (csszengarden/mezzoblue) designed community site.
Thanks, Harold
I think the point with the Truly corporate Drupal sites post (which was from adrian, before he worked with us -- we've listed most of those on our featured sites category) was nice looking business websites.
Our site is quite horrible at the moment, but we needed to get something up. A graphic overhaul is "in the works". When I look back at the original Urban Vancouver site, I'm confident we can get something good looking.