[TYPO3] Typo3 server for virtual domains

[Erik Svendsen]

Hi Ronald, Hi Xavier,

Xavier, a really good answer you gave. I will give some additional comments 
based on some years experience with running servers with multiple TYPO3 installations.

Ronald, are you (or a few people) going to do all the server administrations, 
installing TYPO3, uograding and so on. Do the users need ssh access or ftp 
access to the server. If yes on the first question and no on the second it's 
only to follow Xaviers advice on default setup with symlinks, and configure 
Apache with neccessary "virtual hosts".

My experience is that users don't need any ssh and ftp access, and don't 
want. 

If you want to have these kind of services you have to configure a webhosting 
enviroment.

On the database part a good advice is to have a separate user on every database 
with necessary rights. You don't need, but it gives a better security.

Depending on the traffic, you will have no problem running both the database 
server and the webserver on a single server. I'm running 15 websites on a 
two year old server. 

About limting the database quota, i don't se this as the biggest problem. 
The largest installation on my server uses 3 GB with space, but the database 
aren't more than 160 MB. This is a multidomain installation with more than 
500 pages, 1200 content elements, 1000 newsarticles and about 800 FE-users. 
But as Xavier wrote, this isn't TYPO3 stuff.

And as Xavier write, if you are thinking about using only one TYPO3 installation 
with multiple domains as a hosting service, i will not only advice you to 
not do it, but I will advice to use a bit more time to learn and understand 
TYPO3, MySQL and Linux before you start with such services. 

WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no