[development] Multisite risks (formerly multisite complication)

[Cameron Eagans]

In any case, multisite is a good thing, I think. Updates are a piece of
cake, but you should keep two codebases around. Put all of your multisites
on codebase A and let them run for a while. When updates are available, pull
the updates down on codebase B and move your site directories over one by
one and run update.php. It's a good process, and it's easily scriptable. It
also happens to be the same process that Aegir uses (more or less).

Thanks,
Cameron



On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:33, Chris Skene <chris at xtfer.com> wrote:

> All the previous points about Multisite and its advantages/disadvantages
> are valid, however in your case, as you plan to zap the database regularly
> and it doesn't sound like data integrity is important, I would probably
> start with multisite as well.
>
> I will add, that if you are using APC to improve performance, multisite has
> big performance benefits over separate codebases, as APC will reuse all the
> files. The benefits are partly lost with separate code bases.
>
> Either way, however, I would use git to manage the platform off a separate
> repository.
>
> Chris Skene
> chris at xtfer.com
>
>
> On 14/11/2010, at 2:56 AM, jeff at ayendesigns.com wrote:
>
>  I don't know. I'll try that out. In thinking this through, another
> question sprung to mind:
>
> If these categories are going to be various demos, with the intent of
> pushing a database overwrite hourly to repair any pummeling done via users
> playing with the admin panel, are there risks in them sharing the same code
> base with production multisite sites?
>
> On 11/12/2010 09:38 PM, Christopher Skene wrote:
>
> Does having a site folder called sub.domain.category_1 work? You may need a
> symlink in your root folder to this folder, called "category_1".
>
> On 13/11/2010 12:29 PM, <jeff at ayendesigns.com> wrote:
>
> Right, so sub.domain/category_1 would run off the same code instance as
> sub.domain/category_2, but separate db's
>
>
>
> On 11/12/2010 08:23 PM, Christopher Skene wrote:
> >
> >
> > So you want different sites on each categor...
>
>
>
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