This appears to me to be a fairly typical Drupal multi-site configuration. All sites share the same Drupal files/modules and, depending upon where you place them, contributed modules, themes, and libraries (something new with WYSIWYG and perhaps some other modules).

Each site has its own directory in /sites, e.g., /sites/secure.com, /sites/portfolio.com, and /sites/theotherone.org. Each site, of course, has its own settings.php which has its own database credentials.

The secure site is configured to use whatever modules it needs, with appropriate settings to run HTTPS, when necessary. The other sites are not configured to use HTTPS.

The secure site will require a security certificate which is associated with the its domain name and the IP address.

The only real concern that I think you have regards the 100MB limitation on an individual database. In my, perhaps limited, experience a 100MB database is VERY large. I recently worked on moving an old Drupal (4.6) installation from one host to another. This site had over 8000 nodes and more than 5000 users yet the database, while big enough to be a real pain to export, and especially import, was somewhere between 80-90MB. I suspect this will be much larger than what you can expect. Of course, YMMV.

Let me express my opinion on hosting. Since there are hosting vendors that offer packages which include a static IP-address, security certificate, and have virtually unlimited space and bandwidth for less than $11/month (1 year contract) or less than $9/month (2 year contract), why use a host that limits the size of your databases?

Good luck,
Curt

@ curt

okay so besides the drupal install what other module would u say to use... the only one i have found is domain access... is there a step by step instruction guide of sorts on how to do what i am trying to do... and what hosting company are you talking about... what is YMMV????

thank you very much for the help curt

One of the good things about Drupal is the large number of contributed (and core) modules that can be put together to meet an individual site's needs. One of the bad things about Drupal is the large number of contributed (and core) modules that can be selected to meet an individual site's needs.

It would be presumptuous of me to think that I could come up with a list of modules that would be either necessary or sufficient to meet the needs of the sites that you vaguely described. There are, however, many recipes and tutorials on this site, Drupal.org, and others that are quite useful.

The book, Using Drupal, is generally recommended as one way to get introduced to Drupal and it provides a number of site recipes.

YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary, in other words, this was my experience but your experience may differ.

The hosting company I was referring to is Midphase. I won't put a link here because I am an affiliate and have a link that gets me credit on my own website's Affiliates page. You can find a link to my site in my profile. If you contact me I can give you a code for three months of free hosting (applied after your contract period).

Let me suggest that you attack these three sites one at a time, starting with your portfolio site because I think that will be the simplest. It probably will be not much more than what's frequently called a brochure site.

Your site for blogs and forums is the second site that I'd recommend you address. The Ubercart site will probably be the most challenging so I'd save that for last. The only thing that I'd do up front for the commerce site is get a hosting account, e.g. Midphase's Business Plan, that includes a static IP-address and "free" security certificate since it only costs $2/month more and saves the hassle of changing later.

Hope this helps,
Curt

curt

can you provide any information where i can get documention... concerning my problem that i have told you about...

Ketan

Ketan,

In the book Using Drupal there are three chapters, in particular, that should be of interest to you:

• Chapter 1 Drupal Overview
• Chapter 2 Drupal Jumpstart
• Chapter 3 Job Posting Board (information about CCK and Views)
• Chapter 7 Photo Gallery

Realize that you're never going to find a recipe that fits your needs and wishes exactly. You will have to invest some time/effort/money(?) to get what you want.

Curt