By mark2741 on

Not sure if Drupal is the right solution for me or not -

I have a client who has ~800 domain names that have been sitting with a parking host. There is no content on these pages currently other than some links from the parking host. The parking host gets 80% of the profits (last month, for example, my client made $120 net - or 20% of the total revenue generated).

He now wants to take control of those 800 domain names and create a one-page (for now) template that can be used for each domain. Depending on the domain, the content (all dynamically pulled in from various sources including Amazon-supplied videos, AdSense ads, etc) would change.

I am a flash developer with some basic xhtml/css/php experience (in other words, I've put together static sites that validate, custom WordPress themes, etc, but I'm definitely not great with the non-flash-based web).

The client requesting me to do this has been warned that I have zero experience in this area, but he is comfortable with me and trusts me and insists that I attempt it. I'd like to give it a go.

Ideally I wouldn't need a CMS at all and, since all of the 800 domains need only one page, and that page layout is the same for all domains and only the content would change based on the domain/url, ideally a single page with xml or something like that would be the way to go. Is this possibe? Is Drupal worth bothering with in this case?

Any advice?

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Comments

eikes’s picture

eikes commented

Sounds like you don't need a CMS, all you need is 

print $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
Moonshine’s picture

Moonshine commented

You really don't need to complicate something like this with Drupal. A simple single PHP page switched off the servername would do.

FWIW, if the client is really gettting 20% on parking then he's being taken for a ride. With 800 domains, he could move them to GoDaddy parking, get very cheap domain fees and take home 80% of parking revenue. We do that with some domains and it works very well with zero effort.

mark2741’s picture

mark2741 commented

Thanks guys,

Yes - as I was typing the question/post I was saying to myself, "This is probably not something related to Drupal....". Thanks for not flaming me on it!

I'll have to look more into how I can use PHP to handle this.

Thanks again!

mark