Actually, this sounds like precisely the kind of thing that DrupalGardens.com is targeting and that you would want to be a reseller/affiliate or some such there. In effect, you would outsource the heavy-lifting to Acquia and you would concentrate on quality, knowledgeable support, service, and marketing to your industry niche. --Sohodojo Jim-- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Mathews Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:49 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Allowing users to create easy pre-fab sites? Sounds like Aegir w/ a custom install profile tailored to your user's industry. Aegir works very well for applications like this. -- Kyle Mathews Blog: kyle.mathews2000.com/blog Twitter: http://twitter.com/kylemathews Company: http://eduglu.com On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Bob Fishel <bob@bobforthejob.com> wrote: Is anyone aware of anyone using Drupal as a hosting system. My goal is to allow users (probably through OG + Domain Access + Domain Access Advanced + ubercart) to purchase a hosting plan and automatically have a domain set up for them. My users are all in the same industry so the type of nodes they will need to create can be boiled down to a simple 3-4 types. Basically I want them to be able to: 1. Be assigned a template domain/site with some default pages with some lorem ipsum text (should be easy to accomplish using rules) 2. Be able to switch themes on their domain only (I'm not sure how to do this) 3. It'd be totally awesome if they could modify there themes by dragging and dropping blocks to change the layout of their particular site (again no idea how to do this) 4. Grant other users the ability to edit their site (I'm not sure how to do this without exposing my entire user list to them....) Thanks -Bob

Aegir looks interesting but my main site is (planned... i'm still drawing up a site plan before implementing) using Domain Access. The main site is www.example.com and will have a number of sub sites based on cities city1.example.com city2.example.com ... These subsites will have their own set of content but will all use the same theme and some subsites will need to pull content from others (for example the dayton site will pull some content from the cincinnati and the columbus sites etc...) However I want to allow my users to sign up for their own domains that will possibly pull some content from one or more of the subsites. (basically making certain pre-fabbed views available for them to link to) So it appears that domain access doesn't play well with Aegir. So two possible solutions. 1. Host a separate drupal install with Aegir but not Domain Access at something like Aegir.example.com and execute a shell script that utilizes Drush when someone purchases a hosting package. Share any needed nodes to the other install via RSS. 2. Something else that i'm not thinking of that would allow D omain access to manage the main site and subsites but aegir to manage anything other then *.example.com and example.com Any ideas on how to accomplish #2 or any flaws in #1? Thanks for the feedback. -Bob On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Peter Droogmans <Peter@attiks.com> wrote:

Bob,

1. Have a look at aegir (http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system) and combine it with some install profiles

2. You can set the themes per site

3. Have a look at context module, it includes an editor to drag and drop blocks

4. Users are set per site, so no worries

-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bob Fishel Sent: woensdag 28 juli 2010 3:46 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Allowing users to create easy pre-fab sites?

Is anyone aware of anyone using Drupal as a hosting system.

My goal is to allow users (probably through OG + Domain Access + Domain Access Advanced + ubercart) to purchase a hosting plan and automatically have a domain set up for them.

My users are all in the same industry so the type of nodes they will need to create can be boiled down to a simple 3-4 types.

Basically I want them to be able to:

1. Be assigned a template domain/site with some default pages with some lorem ipsum text (should be easy to accomplish using rules)

2. Be able to switch themes on their domain only (I'm not sure how to do this)

3. It'd be totally awesome if they could modify there themes by dragging and dropping blocks to change the layout of their particular site (again no idea how to do this)

4. Grant other users the ability to edit their site (I'm not sure how to do this without exposing my entire user list to them....)

Thanks

-Bob

On 28 Jul 2010 16h06 WEST, bob@bobforthejob.com wrote:

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1. Be assigned a template domain/site with some default pages with some lorem ipsum text (should be easy to accomplish using rules)

2. Be able to switch themes on their domain only (I'm not sure how to do this)

3. It'd be totally awesome if they could modify there themes by dragging and dropping blocks to change the layout of their particular site (again no idea how to do this)

Try panels. It gives you a degree of control that, AFAIK, is unmatched by other modules out there. With panels_everywhere you can do whatever you want with the full page template.

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4. Grant other users the ability to edit their site (I'm not sure how to do this without exposing my entire user list to them....)

No problem with panels. Define a set of layouts. Define stuff that each group of users can add to a panel region. That's the way I would approach that problem. --- appa