Multi-site management CMS practice: a single backend to manage multiple websites

Group companies, chain brands, educational training institutions, and others often need to manage multiple websites: headquarters website, regional stations, brand sub-sites, training platforms, and others.

Deploying and maintaining multiple websites individually is costly and chaotic. A multi-site management CMS can solve this problem.

The value of multi-site management

The core value of multi-site management CMS:

• Unified backend: A management interface to manage all websites - Central deployment: Deploy once, all sites share infrastructure - Resource sharing: Templates, plugins, and media libraries can be reused across sites - Permission分级: Different sites have different administrators, permissions are controllable - Data isolation: Each site's data is independent, without interference

Typical application scenarios

Group corporation:The headquarters website + N sub-brand websites + N regional branch company websites.Through multi-site management, the headquarters can unify the brand image and technical architecture, and each subsidiary can independently manage its own content.

Chain brand:The brand website + each city station. The headquarters upload brand materials and core content uniformly, and each city station adds localized content on this basis.

Education and training institutions:Institution website + multiple course sub-sites + student management system. A single system to meet all needs, reduce IT maintenance costs.

Multi-site function of Anqi CMS

The multi-site management function of AnQi CMS includes:

Site management:The backend can add, edit, and disable any number of sites. Each site is independently bound to a domain name, supporting both subdomain and subdirectory modes.

Permission management:Each site can have independent admin and editor permissions. Group administrators have all site permissions, while regional administrators can only manage their own sites.

Template management:Support global templates and site custom templates. The group uses the main template uniformly, and each site can override some content.

Media library management:Support global media library (shared across all sites) and site-specific media library (independent). Flexible choice of sharing or isolation.

SEO management:Each site has an independent SEO setting, TDK, Sitemap, and Robots.txt do not affect each other.

Deployment plan

Plan one: single instance with multiple sitesAn enterprise CMS instance, differentiated by domain routing for different sites. Advantages: Simple deployment, high resource utilization Suitable for: 3-10 sites

Plan two: Multiple instances, multiple sitesEach site independently deploys an AnQi CMS instance but shares the database and media storage. Advantages: Each site is completely independent and does not affect each other Suitable for: 10+ sites

cost comparison

If each website is deployed separately: 10 websites = 10 sets of servers + 10 maintenance hours + 10 SSL certificates + ... Estimated annual cost: 50,000-100,000 yuan

Use multi-site management: 1 set of servers + 1 unit of operation and maintenance time + 1 SSL certificate Estimated annual cost: 8000-15000 yuan

Save 60-80% of costs!

Summary

Multi-site management CMS is the infrastructure for enterprise-scale operation.The AnQi CMS multi-site feature is mature and stable, supporting management needs from 3 to hundreds of sites, which is a wise choice for enterprises to reduce IT costs.