[Typo3] Advantage and Disadvantage in keeping 1 only typo3 installation

Nagita Karunaratne nagita.k at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 00:04:23 CEST 2005


Michael,

Do you use a setup typical of most hosting companies selling shared hosting? 

For example, do you give your clients access to cpanel and the ability
to administer their own accounts?

Thanks.


On 6/6/05, Michael Scharkow <mscharkow at gmx.net> wrote:
> Francesco di Francia wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I read in documentation and in list that Typo3 can manage more sites
> > with a UNIQUE installation and an Unique backend.
> 
> Yes, you can host more than one domain with one T3 instance.
> 
> > Infact in download area there's a "source" package and an installation
> > package. The source, i guess, is installed in the unix/linux filesistem
> > and it's about 11MB.
> > So, i suppose that one advantage could be to occupy ONE ONLY TIME 11mb
> > of hard disk space.
> 
> This hasn't got too much to do with a unique installation, but rather
> with sharing the code between multiple installations.
> 
> An installation of TYPO3 normally consists of one package (dummy,
> quickstart) with one directory structure and one db. Plus you need the
> TYPO3 source. However, for any additional installation, you only need
> another directory structure from a package and one db, since you can
> symlink to the *one* TYPO3 source somewhere on your server.
> 
> Because of this, TYPO3 can also save a lot of diskspace for multiple
> instances (since quickstart et. al. are a lot smaller).
> 
> > Which are other advtg of an UNIQUE typo3 installation ? And disadvantage ?
> > What should i keep attention at if i choose the unique installation ?
> > Keeping an unique installation improve typo3 perfomance ? Or is only a
> > matter of occupy less space ?
> 
> I'd chose different installations for different customers, projects,
> etc. It's a little more work to maintain, but you don't have to worry
> about permissions and stuff as much as with one installation. It's not
> such a matter of disk space, see above...
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael
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