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By samwong on
My company does online advertising for small businesses. We notice half of these businesses do not even have websites while the rest have poorly designed and maintained sites. We are looking at creating easy to maintain websites for these businesses to improve traffic.
1. They are to be hosted on our server but should use their domain name. We are looking at ~100 domains. Can Drupal help us manage across domains?
2. We plan to start with one template for everyone but need an option of allowing mass installation of plugins as we expect to implement features like Live Chat or Yelp reviews over time. Will Drupal allow us to push these changes? For example, when Live Chat is ready, we want to be able to throw it into the template and everyone will suddenly have Live Chat option on their site.
3. Admin access for the real business owners to personalize their web front. Can Drupal easily restrict their access to their own site?
I need to keep things simple as budget and time are big constraints here. If Drupal is not for us, do let me know if there is any more stripped down cms that can handle my requirements more easily. Thank you!
Comments
As long as your clients won't
As long as your clients won't need FTP access to the hosting environment, a single code base, multiple database set up would be very easy to maintain.
search for "multisite
search for "multisite installation" or similar on drupal.org. You'll find a lot of info on this very subject.