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Drupal multisite factory
For several years, our agency has been supporting clients in the design, deployment, and maintenance of their Drupal multisite factories, thanks to our advanced technical expertise, tailored installation profiles, and our open source Dropfactory solution.
What is a Drupal site factory?
A Drupal site factory is a centralized infrastructure that allows you to create, manage, and maintain multiple Drupal sites from a single technical base.
It offers several advantages:
- Consistency and standardization: unified templates, modules, and best practices.
- Time-saving: automated deployments and simplified maintenance.
- Resource sharing: streamlined hosting and updates.
- Autonomy and scalability: each site can evolve while adhering to the overall architecture.
What are the different types of Drupal multisite architectures?
Depending on your needs, there are several architectures to run a multi-site Drupal instance. Our expertise covers all existing solutions.
- Multi-domains: several sites share the same database. It’s simple to maintain, ideal for homogeneous sites.
- Multi-sites : each site has its own database, configurations, and files, while sharing the same code. This offers greater flexibility and isolation.
- Multi-sites managed from the Dropfactory administration console: our in-house solution for deploying new sites easily from a single, intuitive interface.
What are the steps to create a Drupal multisite?
Dropfactory: our Drupal multisite management console
To easily manage your site factory, we have developed Dropfactory, an intuitive, modern, and open-source solution:
- Deploy sites in just a few clicks
- Centralized management of backups and restores
- Monitoring from a single dashboard
- Organize and filter sites by categories
Our methodology
To be sure you make the best possible choice between Multi-sites and Multi-domains, it is highly recommended to ask yourself the following questions: How many sub-sites will you need to manage? Is it necessary/required to use a single administration panel? Will you need to share content and users between the different sub-sites?
Our Drupal agency, based in France, supports you in choosing and setting up the most suitable multisite architecture for your organization, taking into account your volume, security policy, and technical resources.
Installation profiles play a vital role in the operation of a Drupal site factory. They allow you to standardize the initial configuration of sites created from the factory:
- choice of enabled modules,
- configuration of permissions and user roles,
- integration of a reference graphic theme,
- security and performance settings,
- preinstalled SEO optimization tools.
Thanks to this approach, each new deployed site benefits from a coherent and stable technical foundation, while still remaining customizable as needed.
Installation profiles ensure the quality, compliance, and maintainability of all the sites in your Drupal ecosystem.
Yes, and that's actually one of Drupal’s greatest strengths! A site factory can include several installation profiles, each one matching a specific type of site or need.
For example:
- a “corporate” profile for institutional sites,
- an “e-commerce” profile integrating shop modules,
- an “intranet” profile focused on internal collaboration.
This modularity allows organizations to manage different types of sites within the same technical environment, while maintaining centralized governance. Dropfactory makes this approach easy by allowing you to choose or create a profile at the time of deployment, without complex technical intervention.
Absolutely! Dropfactory is an open source solution. You can therefore:
- discover the administration interface,
- deploy a test Drupal site with a single click,
- explore the backup, restore, and monitoring features,
- understand how Dropfactory can integrate with your existing infrastructure.
To do so, you have two options:
- If you want to explore our demo for free: request your access to the demo →
- If you want to test Dropfactory and give us feedback: check out our GitHub repository →
Case study:
The Elior Group Drupal site factory, already over 100 sites!
