Multiple website configuration

  • Cat Man

    (@aathithyan)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I wanted to do the following using multisite and buddypress.

    1. 10+ different community websites using buddypress.
    eg – site1.com – users1
    site2.com – users2 and keeps on going upto site 10 and its users.
    The domains for all 10 sites are connected using domain mapping plugin inside multisite.
    What I need to know is, is it possible to connect users of site1 to site2 giving them limited access?

    2. I wanted to have an centralized job board using an plugin in separate domain. Lets call it site3.com. Now how can the users of site1 and site2 access this site without any login details and can they use their data’s from their respective site?

    3. Last question regarding scaling up. In future there will be some 60+ domains and in each site the users will be 3000+. any advice on scaling this up correctly from initial stage?

    Note – if the multisite option is overload, is it good to go by separate installation and server for each domain and share their databases alone? If yes, how to share the databases of all the sites?

    Any advice?

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  • Moderator Bet Hannon

    (@bethannon1)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    1. It depends on what you mean by “The domains for all 10 sites are connected using domain mapping plugin inside multisite.” If you mean that you will be using a unique domain mapped to each subsite, then no. For instance if your network is setup as subdomain network, so that each subsite is created as site1.maindomain.com and site2.maindomain.com, and THEN you map the domains abc.com to site1.maindomain.com, and xyz.com to site2.maindomain.com, the network will “see” abc.com and xyz.com as separate sites and require separate logins. IF you leave the subdomains as site1.maindomain.com and site2.maindomain.com, then it would be possible to set up the network so that users can access both sites without re-logging in.

    You’ll need to be more clear about what you mean by “limited access”. There may or may not be a way to limit the access of a user on site1.maindomain.com in site2.maindomain.com, depending on what you want to limit.

    2. See above. Users of site1.maindomain.com would be able to access jobboard.mainsite.com, but not jobboarddomain.com.

    3. The best advice is to set this up on the best hosting you can afford at the moment, and avoid cheap shared hosting. 60 sites is not huge by network standards — there are networks that run 1000’s of subsites. But depending on the traffic and activity that those 3000+ users might generate, you probably want a more robust hosting service– or at least one that can get easily upgraded.

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