Hi Will, On Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011, Will Scheidegger wrote: > That is correct. "multisite" is an EE feature and the docs should mention > this.
OK. In the end I am not as stupid as thought ;-) > There's of course always the question: What to put into the EE version and > what to give away for free in the CE version. Well, I am not complaining about the missing feature, after all CE is free. I complain about the time I've lost, because it was not documented. > - From the point of view of big corporations with multiple websites, > microsites, intranet, extranet, you name it, it makes sense that the > "multisite" feature is EE. - From the deployment point of view it is > exactly the opposite: Small businesses who are used to get 10GB of > webspace with your favorite blend of php CMS for $100/year will already > have troubles with the price tag of a shared Magnolia hosting (approx. > $500-700/year). And now if you tell them that they will need a dedicated > Magnolia in order to use STK... you just lost an SMB customer. > > We're facing the same situation. We started work on a few smaller projects > (non-EE) that we would like to do with STK but we cannot deploy them in a > Magnolia of their own. I guess we will have to write something like a > "multisite-light" module which allows multiple site configurations but > leaves away the EE features like URL-shortening. But we have not decided > yet... For my personal needs this is fine, but you're right for the general business case here. Thanks, Jörg ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
