[support] Multi Site Question . . .

[Jason Flatt]

On Friday 10 November 2006 07:13, 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.
>

If they are not sharing a database, that part of the update will have to be 
done for each site. In the case of security updates, that's likely to be nil. 
In the case of major version upgrades, each site /will/ need to 
run /update.php. For your situation, if all the sites are similarly 
configured and use the same contrib modules and/or themes, that might be 
possible by running a script (once you've tested it in a couple of sites). 
YMMV.

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