Hey Everyone,
I'm getting started moving multiple separate websites and their blogs over to MT on a DV with Mediatemple.
I'll be setting up a fresh new MT 5.2 install and run about 6 websites total from that one installation.
First and foremost is there a best practices document on the web that will help me along the way in getting everything up and running, i.e. www.domain1.com linked to it's website within MT 5?
Secondly, once the content begins to develop over time, what's the most efficient way in your opinion to handle the rebuilding? Dynamic or Static?
All in all, I'm so stoked to be working with MT and I hope to have everything up and running for launch early 2013! Thanks in advance y'all!
Scott
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Hi Scott,
You've opened a similar topic to which I've provided you feedback, but somebody removed it.
Anyway, as I've mentioned to you at that time, you have to create a parent website for each and every domain, and that would allow you to publish pages inside your website.
Futher, you could create one or more child(ren) blogs under each or some of your websites, depending on what your goal is with each one of your websites.
Dynamic publishing is very quick, because movable won't publish the pages physically on the server. Instead it will generate them at the time of the page load, by reading the database and displaying the content.
On the other hand, the static publishing is more stable because pages are created physically which in other words it means that your site would continue to be visible also if your database server goes down, or is experiencing any issues (slows down etc.). Despite the advantage that I've mentioned you, the static publishing is slower, because movable type has to generate all the pages or at least blocks of many pages and that operation takes a bit of time.
The bigger your site, the more time it would take to rebuild the website, but if with the time you optimize your templates or you use publish some of the templates via the Publish Queue, you could get an excellent timing also with the static publishing.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Static publishing is slower for you, but it will actually lead to faster page load times for your visitors. Dynamic publishing is faster for you but (a little bit) slower for your visitors.
Also, static publishing scales better if you are expecting very high numbers of visitors at the same.
Don't forget Movable Type also has a 'background publishing' option where publishing is handled by a program that is constantly running in the background on the server. This gives you a faster backend while your visitors still get fast static pages. But this option requires that you can run cron jobs on the server, it might not be available in all hosting packages.