Ok.so I'm getting hammered as a custom designer/developer by sites such as Z57.com (a real estate service/site provider) because they can set up sites for their clients on-the-fly.
I develop custom sites, one-at-a-time.cost is much greater, time-to-live is longer, so some of my clients are starting to question whether or not they should go with the template-driven, packaged solutions of Z57.com or Realtor.com. There are two approaches to development at this point. One, build complete sites as templates and sell the templates, each as a complete site with separate database, etc. Two, build one application which uses variables for everything on the site, and store them in a database, and by using the CGI variable to check for the domain name requested (CGI.Server_Name?), set all the variables accordingly and have the site application load all the appropriate content for the site. The question.which way is best? Will the "One Application to Rule Them All" approach cause a much greater drain on my server? Will the dynamic site approach be slower in responsiveness? Separate sites are much simpler, but I have to get directly involved with each client to do that. With one application to dynamically build sites, I can set it up and watch it run, setting up sites for clients on the fly. Anyone doing this kind of thing? Thoughts? Thanks, Rick PS - Remember, right now (and hopefully until CF 8 comes out) I want to run this on CF 4.5. I don't want to through a time-consuming learning curve for CF 7, with the release of CF 8 coming soon to a server near you. I know if I build it with 4.5 now, I'll have to rebuild it with CF 8 again later, but I would have time to get to know CF 8 better first. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
