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Hi,

I’m ready to go live with a project and I have a question about the licences:

At the moment I’m the owner of a personal licence but I will upgrade to a commercial licence. My server is a shared host with some domains. I’m going to install EE once and will run 3 different “sites” with 3 different domains with the EE installation:

• Site 1/Domain 1 is my business portfolio (commercial)
• Site 2/Domain 2 is my blog about Design, Computers etc. (non-commercial)
• Site 3/Domain 3 is my (foto-)blog about my passion (Windsurfing) (non-commercial too)

I’m running these sites here in my local testing envoirement without the MSM in the classic way on one EE installation and this is working fine for me. The content is organized in several weblogs with 3 different templates (one layout for one site). At the moment I don’t need the additional power/features of the MSM.

For my understanding it is allowed to run this configuration of one commercial service and two (or twenty or fifty) additional “sites” without commercial character (which are organized through several templates and weblogs) on one EE installation. Is this correct?

Thanks,

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For my understanding it is allowed to run this configuration of one commercial service and two (or twenty or fifty) additional “sites” without commercial character (which are organized through several templates and weblogs) on one EE installation. Is this correct?

As long as you are the owner of the sites in question, and if any of the sites are commercial in nature, you need the commercial version of EE.

As far as the number of sites you can run on a single EE install, it is unlimited, but there is no official support for that method.

Realistically, 3-5 sites per install is doable, but there are benefits to using MSM. It includes the segregation of weblogs.

So your Windsurfing weblog wouldn’t be able to be “seen” from you design blog. Using the older method, as long as someone knows the url to your other content, they can call it from the main domain name.

Most of the time that’s ok, but some people don’t want that “feature”.

Thanks Sue.

Using the older method, as long as someone knows the url to your other content, they can call it from the main domain name.

Perhaps I can handle this disadvantage via mod_rewrite.

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