Multisite
One platform, many websites — centrally managed, individually branded.
Organizations managing multiple websites face a familiar trap: duplicated effort, inconsistent quality, and spiraling costs. A Drupal Multisite platform changes the equation — one shared platform powers every site, while each keeps its own branding, content, and domain. Updates and security patches are applied once and take effect everywhere.
The Challenges
Running multiple websites independently means:
- Duplicated costs — Each site needs its own development, hosting, and maintenance
- Inconsistent quality — Different codebases drift apart over time
- Security risk — Patching dozens of standalone sites is slow and error-prone
- Scaling pain — Going from 5 to 50 sites becomes exponentially expensive
- Accessibility burden — Ensuring EAA compliance individually across every site [9]
Key Benefits
A Multisite platform directly addresses these challenges by sharing infrastructure across all sites:
- Central management — One platform for updates, security, and features
- Up to 80% cost reduction — Shared infrastructure dramatically lowers per-site costs
- Consistent quality — Shared components ensure uniform UX and accessibility compliance
- Rapid scaling — Launch new sites in hours, not weeks
- Custom branding — Each site keeps its own colors, fonts, logos, and design
- Custom domains — Every site on its own domain or subdomain
Use Cases
- Multi-municipality platforms — Several towns on one instance, each with its own identity
- Enterprise multi-brand — e.g. Volkswagen AG InfoPortal: 20+ brand websites managed by one team [3]
- Media multi-site — e.g. Einfachbacken, daskochrezept.de, beebetter.de: multiple content brands on one shared Drupal instance [5]
- Publisher content pools — e.g. Wirtschaftsverlag: 30+ satellite sites fed from one central content pool [6]
- Franchise networks — Individual location sites with corporate consistency
- Department microsites — Universities or governments with dozens of sub-sites
Your Partner for Enterprise Multisite
We bring the expertise and infrastructure to run your Multisite platform at scale:
- Built-in multi-site capabilities — Our mossbo platform supports Multisite architecture out of the box [8]
- Proven at scale — Volkswagen AG InfoPortal (via Porsche Informatik) [3], Kurier/Profil.at multisite [4], Wirtschaftsverlag 30+ sites [6]
- Cloud-native hosting — Auto-scaling on EU data centers with Austrian data sovereignty
- Open source — No vendor lock-in, full transparency, active Drupal community contributors
Get in touch!
Managing multiple websites? Get in touch — let's talk about your Multisite platform.
