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I realize I’ve been away from EE for a while, but now that I’m trying it out again I don’t think I’ll be switching away any time soon. However, I’m a bit confused. Wasn’t the possibility of managing blogs on different domains at the same time (on the same server, of course) possible in earlier versions of EE, as long as you had your path.php and such in the right folders and what not. Am I remembering wrong or was it possible? If so, why is it now an expansion?

Unless my memory is faulty (and to be honest it could be) I feel a little startled at this because I remember it being one of the things EE was advertising with back when MT went commercial. I’ve paid for my personal license (actually renewed it, which is way better than paying the full new-license price - SCORE!), and I will probably cough up the personal license $$ for MSM as well (maybe even commercial - but do I then have to get a commercial license for EE too? Wouldn’t hurt to look over the way you price your products..!!), but I feel a little sad about paying extra for something that used to come with, for free. Not to sound ungrateful or anything! Just saying.. 😊

So.. what happened? Does anyone know?

~ Gry

Wasn’t the possibility of managing blogs on different domains at the same time (on the same server, of course) possible in earlier versions of EE, as long as you had your path.php and such in the right folders and what not. Am I remembering wrong or was it possible?

You could and you can still do it. Nothing has changed in that regard.

MSM takes it a step further. It let’s you seperate the different sites inside your control panel.

Using the traditional approach you always see all weblogs, all template groups etc. When you have 3, 4 or even more sites each with multiple weblogs you start losing track of things.

With MSM when you login to site A you only see the template groups, weblogs, member groups, ... that actually belong to site A. When you login to site B you only see the stuff that belongs to site B.

Plus you can set different preferences for each site, like the default member-group for newly registered users and the like.

So the main benfit of MSM is that it adds more convenience to handling multiple sites. You can live without it pretty well. It’s like the difference between a chair and an arm chair 😉

YAY! That totally made my day 😊 Thanks for the answer!

Just as a note - your licenses must all match.  So if you want commercial MSM, you must use commercial EE, and all Sites must be commercial license.  See this kb entry.