[support] Multi Site Question . . .

[Michelle Cox]

On 11/10/2006 7:39:19 AM, Jason Flatt (drupal at oadae.net) wrote:
> I have not done so for one reason: what happens if I have a site that is
> using a module that gets abandoned or
> doesn't get upgraded in a timely
> manner? And with multi-sites and the potential to have several sites on a
> single installation (like > 20), there's
> a good likelihood that on a major
> upgrade (like from 4.6 to 4.7 or 4.7 to 5.0), I will have more than one
> such
> module.

Upgrading is one reason that I'm considering splitting up my multi site. I 
have 3 sites running off a multi site. One of them I want to bring to 5.x 
within a few months after release. The other two really don't need to be 
upgraded as long as 4.7 is still supported.

The only real advantage I've found to multi site is security updates only 
need to be applied in one place. I'm not sure that benefit outweighs the 
pain of being forced to upgrade all sites at once.

If you do decide to do multi site, and you only have one or two out of the 
20 that you don't want to upgrade because you're waiting on a module, you 
could always split those off of the multi site until they are ready to be 
upgraded.

Michelle