In the digital age, many companies and content operations teams need to manage multiple websites, which may involve different brands, product lines, regions, or multilingual content.The traditional approach often means deploying multiple independent CMS systems, leading to high maintenance costs, repetitive content updates, and difficult data integration.How to achieve unified management of multi-site content and efficient front-end display in the face of such challenges has become an urgent problem to be solved.AnQiCMS (AnQi Content Management System) is a simple yet powerful solution provided to users under this background.

The core idea of AnQiCMS in multi-site management is "One system, manage all".This means you do not need to install a separate AnQiCMS for each site, but can easily manage multiple content portals through a single AnQiCMS instance.This not only greatly saves server resources, but also reduces the complexity of operation to the lowest.

To implement multi-site management, it is usually the first step to use the reverse proxy function of the server to direct different domain names to the same AnQiCMS application.For example, you can configure each domain in Nginx or Apache to point to the default port where AnQiCMS is running (such as 8001).After completing the server-side configuration, you can log in to the AnQiCMS backend management interface and add a new site under the "Multi-site Management" feature.

The process of creating a new site in the background is very intuitive.You need to set a unique site name, website address (which is the domain name of the new site), administrator account, and password for each new site.It is worth mentioning that each site will have an independent database and site root directory (used to store respective cache, attachments, and other data), which ensures data isolation and security between sites.Even so, you can still choose to reuse the default database account information to simplify the deployment process.After completing these settings, the new site can be used immediately, accessed through its exclusive domain.

Although it is managed uniformly in the background, each site maintains a high degree of independence on the front end. This means that each site can have:

  • A dedicated brand image:You can choose and customize a unique template for each site to ensure its visual style and brand recognition are distinctive.AnQiCMS supports Django template engine syntax, making template creation both flexible and easy to learn.
  • Flexible content structure:With the powerful content model features of AnQiCMS, each site can define different content types according to its own business needs, such as articles, products, events, downloads, etc., to achieve personalized content display.
  • Independent SEO strategy:Each site can be configured with independent TDK (title, keywords, description), pseudo-static rules, Sitemap generation, Robots.txt, and other advanced SEO tools in AnQiCMS, thus optimizing the search engine ranking specifically.
  • Multilingual content support:If your business is facing the global market, AnQiCMS's multilingual support feature allows you to provide multilingual content for different sites or different versions of the same site, easily expanding into the international market.

This management method that combines independence with unity has significantly improved the efficiency of content operation.The operation staff only needs to log in to one back-end, and can switch between different sites to manage content, which greatly simplifies the operation process such as publishing, modifying, and reviewing.Batch replacement of keywords, scheduled content publishing, and other functions further automate daily operation work.In addition, the built-in traffic statistics and crawling monitoring also allow you to have a comprehensive understanding of all site operations in one place, providing data support for content strategy adjustments.

AnQiCMS can achieve such an efficient multi-site management, which is inseparable from its solid technical foundation.It is developed based on Go language, inheriting the high concurrency and high-performance characteristics of Go language, and can maintain stable response even when managing multiple high-traffic sites.The modular design makes the system easy to expand and maintain, while the flexible permission control mechanism ensures the security and compliance of content in a multi-site environment.

In summary, AnQiCMS has fundamentally changed the cumbersome situation of traditional CMS in dealing with complex content operation needs through innovative multi-site management mode.It allows businesses and operations teams to manage and operate multiple sites in a lighter, more efficient, and safer way, thus maintaining a leading position in the fierce market competition.

Common Questions (FAQ)

1. AnQiCMS on a single server can manage how many sites at most?

Theoretically, AnQiCMS can manage a very large number of sites because it is developed using Go language, which has the advantages of high concurrency and high performance, and the data of each site (database, cache, etc.) is stored independently, without interference.The actual amount mainly depends on your server's hardware configuration (CPU, memory, disk I/O) as well as the traffic volume and content complexity of each site.Under reasonable server resources, managing dozens to even hundreds of sites is feasible.

2. Can sites share content or templates with each other?

AnQiCMS was designed with a focus on the independence of sites, so each site has a default independent template configuration and content database.This means that their content is completely isolated, and the templates are also independently selected and customized.includeormacroLabel），call between different sites. As for content sharing, if it refers to displaying the same article or product across sites, AnQiCMS provides flexible label calling functions (such asarchiveList/archiveDetailEnglish tags supportsiteIdparameter), you can specify it in the template of a site to call data from another site and achieve a certain degree of cross-site content display.siteIdto call another site's data, realizing a certain degree of cross-site content display.

3. Will the performance of a single site be affected after enabling multi-site management?

AnQiCMS uses a high-performance Go language architecture and asynchronous processing mechanism, its core design philosophy is lightweight and efficient.When you enable multi-site management, all sites run on the same AnQiCMS application instance, which is more resource-saving than deploying multiple independent CMS systems.Each site's data and request processing is relatively independent, therefore, in most cases, the impact of multi-site management on the performance of a single site is negligible.Only when all sites reach a very high concurrent access volume and the server resources reach a bottleneck, it may feel the performance pressure.At that time, through optimizing server configurations or implementing load balancing, etc., the overall performance can be further improved.