[support] Multi Site Question . . .

[Paul Rooney]

Bryght is running over 1000 sites off of one code 
base:http://drupal.org/node/72328#comment-134751

Paul

Aaron Green wrote:
> I'm wondering how high Drupal can go.  I am reviewing it for an
> installation where it could be installed on 140 sites (departments
> within a company).  I really can't afford to get to some odd number
> and see serious performance issues.  The traffic most likely won't be
> an issue, but huge amounts of content will go in the database.
> Upgrading all of these as separate sites would be a nightmare, so
> multi-site is my only solution at this time.
> 
> On 11/10/06, Greg Knaddison - GVS <Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
>> On 11/10/06, Michelle Cox <mcox at charter.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I agree and would just point out that for me, at 3 sites I said "why
>> bother with multisite, it's not worth it" and then at 10 sites I said
>> "security and general updates suck, I need multisite".
>>
>> So, there are different strategies for different situations.  If you
>> have or are going to have lots of sites, multisite becomes a smart
>> decision.
>>
>> Greg
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