It is our understanding that a unique instance of Umbraco is necessary for each website. As our company runs several dozen different websites will this entail updating every site seperately. We require each site to run in its own IIS Application Pool as a best practice.
Is there currently anyway to update the content on several sites at once? As far as Website Administration does this also mean that a seperate Admin panel is required for each site?
It's possible to run several websites of one Umbraco instance. If you do this all websites will run under one IIS app pool as there is only one application. i.e. you would set it up in IIS as 1 website with multiple bindings for each site.
When you talk about update the content on several sites as once do you mean that all the sites will have some content in common so you only want to update this once? This is possible with the setup described above.
Frank's reply is pretty much what I would have written and asked. We just completed a single umbraco installation (4.7.2) serving up four different websites at once. We just created four different "root" nodes, each using the "manage hostnames" feature to make them become the different sites.
The benefit is that the admin only needs to log into one page and can jump around to edit them all easily enough. We don't see any downsides to sharing a single app pool in this case since it is the same person that owns all four sites. In fact, we haven't run into any downsides at all to this and are pleased that the webhost in this case is only charging for one IIS site instead of four! (Apparently they don't mind letting us add additional hostname bindings, just the sites themselves!)
Running Multiple Instances of Umbraco
Hello All,
It is our understanding that a unique instance of Umbraco is necessary for each website. As our company runs several dozen different websites will this entail updating every site seperately. We require each site to run in its own IIS Application Pool as a best practice.
Is there currently anyway to update the content on several sites at once? As far as Website Administration does this also mean that a seperate Admin panel is required for each site?
Any information would be much appreciated
Hi Frank,
It's possible to run several websites of one Umbraco instance. If you do this all websites will run under one IIS app pool as there is only one application. i.e. you would set it up in IIS as 1 website with multiple bindings for each site.
When you talk about update the content on several sites as once do you mean that all the sites will have some content in common so you only want to update this once? This is possible with the setup described above.
Cheers
Paul
Frank's reply is pretty much what I would have written and asked. We just completed a single umbraco installation (4.7.2) serving up four different websites at once. We just created four different "root" nodes, each using the "manage hostnames" feature to make them become the different sites.
The benefit is that the admin only needs to log into one page and can jump around to edit them all easily enough. We don't see any downsides to sharing a single app pool in this case since it is the same person that owns all four sites. In fact, we haven't run into any downsides at all to this and are pleased that the webhost in this case is only charging for one IIS site instead of four! (Apparently they don't mind letting us add additional hostname bindings, just the sites themselves!)
Best of luck!
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