By Adrianson Crusoe on

Hi there,

After reading the settings.php explanation I can't make out if it's possible to use one database for 'default', another one for 'users', another one for 'sessions', etc, ( on account of my webhost allowing only 50 MB storage per DB ). It that's possible, how would the 'default', 'extra', etc arrays look like ?

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couturier commented

Drupal's core allows for you to have multiple sites with one installation all using the same database, but I have never heard of using multiple databases for one installation. To create multiple sites, you would re-name "default" to example.com, and then add a new folder for each additional site.

If your host is limiting your database storage, I would highly encourage you to switch to a different host. There are so many good hosts out there that specialize in Drupal. Start by looking at Acquia or at the list of hosts under three tabs here: http://drupal.org/hosting

I am very happy with my hosting plan from Hosts of America which are Drupal specialists. Whatever you do, go with someone who specializes in Drupal and can give you both the PHP memory and the database capacity that you need. It will make your life easier.