Multisite Management
What is this?
When developing multiple sites for one client, you can save significant money by using a license in multisite mode. With multisite, one entry point and single authorization into the administration center are used for all sites.
The administration center is convenient for managing all sites; each site has its own structure, design, layouts, etc. A flexible rights system allows you to grant various access rights to department or division employees to the corresponding control system modules.
Which edition should I choose?
Using multisiting is supported in Small Business, Business, Corporation editions. Two sites are supported in the HostCMS.Free.
Multisiting is absent in the HostCMS.My Site.
Can I build sites of a few customers having one license?
Placing sites of a few customers according one license is not allowed. In accordance with the license affiliation agreement the license shall be provided to a user (an individual or a legal entity) with the right to disseminate (reproduce) the software product.
"Distribution of a Software Product" means provision of access to third persons to components of the Software Product reproduced in any form including network and other ways and by sale, hire, rent, and lending.
The User shall have not the right to transfer rights to third persons, provide sublicenses or other rights to third persons.
Licensing
License gives you the right to install HostCMS, so the license is connected not with the site but with installation. The realization of using multisiting in HostCMS allows creating an unlimited number of sites.
At that additional sites created using multisiting are free.
Technical specifications of using multisiting
HostCMS should be installed in one directory on the server and use one database. All domains supported by the CMS should refer to this directory (to be aliases). Backend is a common one for these sites.
