Multi-Site CMS Management
Manage all your sites and apps in one platform
dotCMS makes managing multiple websites and applications simple. Each site can have its own unique branding, users, permissions and content, while also enabling you to share and reuse content across sites. Deliver digital experiences, maintain brand consistency and scale efficiently -- all from a single platform.
Scale your digital experiences with these multisite features
Whether you're managing a few sites or a thousand sites, dotCMS can scale with you as your business requirements and use cases evolve.
Copy Sites and Templates
Copy Sites and Templates
Quickly launch new sites and pages by copying existing ones or reusing templates. Sharing page layouts and components across sites streamlines the process, ensuring consistent designs and effortless scaling.
Reuse Content
Reuse Content
Reusing content is simple in dotCMS, because all content is defined and structured, making it completely separated from the presentation layer. The modular structure makes it so content can be written and edited in one place and then utilized on all channels and sites.
Control Permissions
Control Permissions
Permission management is key to making sure each site has the right people handling the right tasks. The fine-grained permission model in dotCMS gives you precise control over who can create sites, edit content, update templates, and manage users, keeping everything secure and running smoothly across sites.
Translate Content
Translate Content
Deploying multilingual content across channels ensures that your customer experience is engaging for all your target audiences. With dotCMS, you can publish content in different languages, configure the language of your content based on the geolocation of the user, and give end users the ability to quickly switch between languages.
Multi-Tenant Use Cases
There are three ways our customers typically structure their dotCMS deployments based on their use case and delivery channels.
Franchise Model
Sites are centrally managed with a central template and organized with unique subdomains or folder structures, ensuring consistent branding and design while enabling sharing content across sites. Permissions can be tailored for each microsite, giving authors control to localize their content.
Subsidiary Model
Sites are centrally managed with unique templates and top-level domains, enabling distinct designs for different brands or product sites. Content can be shared across sites, while updates and management can be delegated to template or site owners, ensuring both flexibility and consistency.
Agency Model
The dotCMS instance is 'agency' owned, but each site is managed independently with unique domains. Nothing is shared between sites, ensuring total segregation and the delegation of content, templates, users, and permissions, giving full control over each individual site. World Travel Holdings does this for 5000 sites.
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