I would like to share with you how Actency’s technical team managed to treat the client-requirements of a site-factory Drupal.

Drupal is an awesome tool to realize this task and provides several possibilities to create a Site Factory.

Depending on client-needs we have to take the decision if ...

• code
• database
• configurations

... have to be shared between the sites - or not.
I will show you how we helped our client making the right choice that determines the appropriated architecture.

The architecture will be build based on :

• installation-profiles
• Organic Groups and a lot of extension modules
• Domain Access and a lot of extension modules
• the use of utility-tools like DRUSH or Aegir.

Specially Organic Groups and Domain Access comes in handy, when the client wants to:

• ... share easily content
• ... have by default a SSO
• ... want to create new sites easily inside the BO of Drupal.

See how the Variable module and extension modules can help you to enlarge a solution based on organic groups.

Learn from our experience, our do's and dont's and see if our Site-Factory-recipes fit to your needs.