How many websites can c5 run?

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I'm really confused, guys. How many websites can c5 hosted on my domain run? Sorry, I'm a little bit new to CMS.

 
mose replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
mose
Technically, c5 can only host one website.

You can have multiple domains point to the same website by defining a constant in site.php. If you purchase the Domain Mapper add-on in the marketplace, you can point individual domains to separate home pages on your website.

For example, you could have customers visiting candyandflowers.com go to one home page while customers visiting gunsandroses.com go to a different home page in your website. Links from the individualized home page have the "regular" path from the main website but retain the domain they arrived with. See the add-on for more details.
jelthure replied on at Permalink Reply
jelthure
not 100% correct. You can set up one single c5 install to run multiple sites. Although it is more typical to use one install per site.
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
theoretically you can setup infinite sites
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
Yeah I think mose has it basically right. You can point multiple domains to a single concrete5 instance using the domain mapper, but you are sharing assets, users, and add-ons across all of them. It's also going to start falling apart on things like generating a unique sitemap.xml file for each site.. etc.

You can centralize parts of a concrete5 install so if you're setting up many different sites on one server you can share elements of concrete5 and not waste a lot space reinstalling it over and over. That being said, from the tone of the original poster's message it doesn't sound like thats the type of thing they're thinking about at all.

Simplest answer would be "really designed to be one but the domain mapper would let you get away with managing a few related sites with one install"
albert4pinto replied on at Permalink Reply
albert4pinto
I also have near about same query.

I'm planning to use C5 for "Website Builder' site. I have to implement near about 20-25 different sites category wise like E-commerce, CMS, Real estate, Music shop, etc..

Please help me, how I can use C5 for managing these different sites. Should I need to setup individual C5 setup's for each of the category on my server.

If am doing individual setup for all categories then its going to occupy too much space per category site on server.

Guys can anyone suggest me any better solution to achieve 20 different category wise sites.
gabrielkolbe replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi, I did this kind of thing for a real estate site I have. Although not very active at the moment. It is a beast. Basically you obviously want to make the values each site enter and edit into the database. What I did then, is to great a CSS writer, so it would create a folder on the server for each user, then on the basis of the design features they are looking for it writes and creates a .css file for them. When the site loads it looks first if the css is there, if not it will prompt or get values from the db and then write the css. You display the pages and images as selected in db for user. Hope it helps a bit.