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#1 2011-07-04 18:29:59
- joshelbin
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Multiple Websites each with different domains across many servers.
Hi,
I read the faqs and a part of the “Multi-Site Install” threads and docs. However the difficulty and time spent on simply trying to register on this forum prompts me to seek council as the software is being downloaded. Thanks in advance for any help or comments in general.
Scenario:
300 websites 300 separate domain names. Example: websiteone.com , websitetwo.com, anotherwebsite.net etc. NOT subdomains like websiteone.mywebsite.com websitetwo.mywebsite.com.
Each website would require 3 to 6 thousand pages each for a total of about 1.1 million webpages. The 300 websites would be hosted on many different servers and types. From low end shared through cloud, vps up to high end dedicated boxes.
Tag or categorize individual webpages within a domain and across domains. This is for the purpose of filtering pages that match a certain search criteria. Example within a singular website of 5,000 pages 1,800 pages might be categorized as “large-green-widgets” 900 pages might be selected because they are tagged as “medium-green-widgets” On any of the other 299 domains there could be pages that were also tagged as large or medium as well as small-green-widgets. I would need the ability to filter for each term as well as a global match of “green-widgets” regardless of small, medium or large.
With the above in mind I need to control every page through ONE interface. That is there will be no logging into 300 different admin areas on each domain or even on each server. All 300 websites on many different servers needs to be controlled by ONE database.
Typical page control would give the ability to update content, change / add outbound links, anchor text, edit page title, h1 tags, etc en-mass. Say you did a filter on all 1.1 million pages in this mini-net by page category type “green widgets” and it yielded 80,000 pages. A typical task would then be to add or alter an outbound url and edit the contents of the h1 tags on all 80,000 pages that matched the filter, at once.
I have been working on this from scratch on a much smaller scale and constantly looking for existing alternatives. I was fortunate to find this place and though I would ask.
Thanks for your time.
Josh
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Re: Multiple Websites each with different domains across many servers.
Out of the box, your requirements are not matched by Textpattern’s feature set.
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#3 2011-07-06 06:54:16
- rebelmar
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Re: Multiple Websites each with different domains across many servers.
joshelbin wrote:
Tag or categorize individual webpages within a domain and across domains.
Textpattern is directed to administer one site at a time. Content or structure sharing across web sites as well as a unified backend for multiple domains is not in its scope.
Typical page control would give the ability to update content, change / add outbound links, anchor text, edit page title, h1 tags, etc en-mass.
Batch editing would be feasible with the help of a custom plugin.
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Re: Multiple Websites each with different domains across many servers.
I believe that, with a bit of imagination, brain sweat, sysadmin skills and hacking powers, you may achieve your crazy setup using Textpattern. The keyword is “Reverse Proxy”.
BTW, I’m curious: which are your goals? World domination via black hat SEO techniques?
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#5 2011-07-06 14:42:41
- joshelbin
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Re: Multiple Websites each with different domains across many servers.
maniqui wrote:
I believe that, with a bit of imagination, brain sweat, sysadmin skills and hacking powers, you may achieve your crazy setup using Textpattern. The keyword is “Reverse Proxy”.
BTW, I’m curious: which are your goals? World domination via black hat SEO techniques?
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Haha good questions and I believe I recognize that style from another forum or two?
It is for SEO / SEM purposes but more white hat than the traditional methods used by most people trying to win in the serps. After a few years in the biz it occurred to me we are all doing the same thing in the same places and diluting the performance. Cranking out third party web2.0’s on the first tier pointing to the money sites and then backlinking like crazy to that first tier. Trouble is with the expense and effort of creating the content and the 100’s of thousands of backlinks we own very little of the structure. First time that blogger, blogspot, paint, hubpages etc. 2.0’s decides we don’t meet their standards they can pull the account. Lots of effort, time and expense lost as well as the link juice. Doesn’t sound like the best foundation for my business anymore.
Had a few mins to look at TP and agree it is not an out of the box solution nor was that expected. However at first glance there are a few areas that sparked a possible fork in my current coding direction. I’m not far from my goals with my current version and should benefit from TP.
Thanks everyone for your replies. Looks like you’ve got a great community here. Sort of ironic TP was invisible to me by organic searches over the course of months. Guess I should have googled a different keyword phrase than “world domination” :)
Josh
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