[consulting] managing many sites

[John Sechrest]

As a consultant who tries to support many people, the question
is how do you do that support. So this is trying to be
a consulting question.... 

How do you manage many sites with many different clients.



Dan Robinson <dan at drob.org> writes:

 % Just a quick reality check - why is this conversation happening here? 
 % Isn't this a support or dev issue?
 % 
 % Dan
 % 
 % 
 % >I have installed over a dozen websites with drupal, from 
 % >4.4 to 4.6.3. 
 % >
 % >But this can run into a lot of work to do maintenance and updating
 % >when different modules are used and different configurations are used.
 % >
 % >I am contemplating updating all of these to 4.7 when I get the chance....
 % >But.... when I do that, some of the modules will break. And some
 % >of the modules are not supported. And the features used by members will
 % >break. 
 % >
 % >So it is seems that it is not a simple process to keep a drupal site 
 % >up to date.
 % >
 % >What are your strategies for keeping many different sites on many different
 % >hosting situations up to date and running cleanly with the smallest amount
 % >of time involved in that maintenance? 
 % >
 % >
 % >
 % >
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John Sechrest          .         Helping people use
                        .           computers and the Internet
                          .            more effectively
                             .                      
                                 .       Internet: sechrest at peak.org
                                      .   
                                              . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest