Xaraya vs drupal hosting

Posted by dumper4311 on 20 Jun 2007 at 23:19 UTC

First off, let me say I've been going through the forums a bit, and really appreciate the content provided here. You guys have given me a lot to think about, and helped me solidify several ideas. This is my first post here, and I'm pretty new to the whole CMS thing. Anybody can slap together a basic website, but this is somewhat more involved, so I figured I'd better pick the brains of a more experienced community.

I'm planning on opening up several content rich domains, all of which are at least somewhat interrelated. I'd like to host all of these domains using 1 CMS implementation, and have the option of using 1 username/password combination per user to allow access to all of these different websites. If possible, it'd be nice to retain the ability to require different username/password combinations for some of the sites.

I realize I'm not ready to implement all of the following features at once, but I'd like to start with a system that can grow into what I want to accomplish (as I learn to add more capability), so input from people with experience in these areas would be greatly appreciated.

I've done my best to gather features and info from cmsmatrix, and opensourcecms, but I still have some questions about the multitude of Open source CMS options available. So far, based on features, I'm looking at either Drupal, Typo3, or Xaraya.

Based on what I'd like to accomplish (see below), can anyone tell me if Drupal would be the best choice to go forward?

Here's the list of things that I'm most concerned about as this series of projects grows. Please comment on anything I'm leaving out or you think I may have an incomplete understanding of. Additionally, if you can tell me of the specific modules required to implement this functionality, that'd give me a big head start on evaluation.

*** One CMS install to host and manage content of multiple domains (in so far as is practical).

*** Share User profile/account info between these multiple domains (1 membership – and 1 login - for all related sites).

*** Good forum capabilities (search functionality, user profiles, possible separate forums for each domain, block spam posts, require login, etc.)

*** Ability to import/export syndicated feeds (RSS/XML/whatever) to/from related sites/domains.

** Simple import of articles/publications in a variety of formats (ODF, Latex, XHTML, etc.)

** Flexible export of content (as “print friendly”, or PDF, or XHTML for example).

** SEO friendly features: meta tags, static and readable URL's, no cookies or session ID's in URLs.

** Bot detection capability (restricted content requires login for a human visitor, but possibly allow a recognized search engine's bot to index content without login).

** Content control and protection. Showing part of an article, but requiring login to get the whole thing:

** Performance (bandwidth usage, DB access, etc.)

** Ease of Administration. Setup and administration must be as simple as possible, I don't want to become an expert website coder, I am more interested in the content of the projects (eventually businesses).

A site (Drupal based) that accomplishes a lot of what I'd like to do is: www.howtoforge.com/

As I said before, any input would be greatly apprecicated.

Thanks in advance

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