[support] Multi Site Question . . .

[Aaron Green]

Ok, thanks for the information.

On 11/10/06, Jason Flatt <drupal at oadae.net> wrote:
> 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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