Answered Cloud plans and contexts

Wondering if the Cloud guys can advise on which plan would best suit the following

I have a client with three separate sites (non MODX). The design of each is slightly different but they share the same content and they're for the same service.

Client and I have agreed to rebuild all 3 sites in MODX and subsequently host in MODX Cloud.

Do I ...

1. Need a Cloud plan that will support 3 Production Clouds (Digital Agency Cloud)
or
2. Need three individual Client Plans
or
3. Can the three sites be housed under a single Client or Freelancer Plan using Contexts?

Confused :-/

[ed. note: rethrash last edited this post 11 years, 3 months ago.]

This sounds like a good use case for multiple-contexts, which is supported in MODX Cloud. You can also add additional production Clouds to any existing Account Plan if you later decide that makes the most sense.

Quote from: rethrash at Dec 17, 2012, 02:28 PM

This sounds like a good use case for multiple-contexts

Thanks Ryan. Client will love being able to update the 3 sites within one manager.

Quote from: theoretiker at Jan 11, 2013, 01:38 PM

No Problem at all, i did that already and it works well.

Thanks theoretiker. Should be implementing next week.

Hi

I don't want to drag up an answered post but....... I have a couple of Modx Revo sites utilizing the context functionality.

Currently we have a 'primary' domain IE domain1.com but will also have domain2.com / domain3.com also going to sites in that context. My current host is a VPS environment and the way I have achieved this is to set up a primary domain (IE virtual host on this server - domain1.com) which physically hosts the site with all contexts. I have then set up the other domains (domain2.com and domain3.com) to just be alias of the vhost (domain1.com) which works fine.

Then in the Modx install we have a gateway plugin that simply redirects requests for each domain to the relevant contexts.

I assume that this setup is doable in the Modx cloud + contexts as this would be a deal breaker for us.

Thanks
PS but the set up looks great on face value good work!

megasteve, that is absolutely doable in Cloud.

Brilliant thanks Mark.

Quote from: theoretiker at Jan 11, 2013, 01:38 PM

No Problem at all, i did that already and it works well.

Just keep in mind... Big Projects slows down Manager and sometimes the Site itself,
so 3 Contexts does this 3 times in one Manager.

Regarding the slowing down. You could 'fix' (better word is bypass) this by creating 3 users. One user for each context...