Datafeed Studio allows you to create unlimited sites. There are two main ways of doing this, creating a new Datafeed Studio installation for each site, or creating multiple sites off one datafeed installation. Each has its pros and cons.
With one installation per site, you create a new Datafeed Studio installation for each affiliate site you create.
Pros:
each site is unique, with no potential of “accidental spillage” of unwanted products from Site A appearing on Site B.
each site can be on different hosts.
Cons:
Alternatively Datafeed Studio supports multiple sites working off the same data. In this instance you install Datafeed Studio once on a ‘master site’ and share the software and data between your affiliate sites.
Pros :
less administration.
can share data (including reviews, customised product content, etc.) between sites.
Cons :
only one site can act as the master administration interface (this is typically the site you first installed Datafeed Studio on)
all sites must have a copy of Datafeed Studio installed. The recommended way of doing this is to do a UNIX symlink for all sites to one copy of the Datafeed Studio installation. This implies that all sites are located on the same physical host.
For example, if you install Datafeed Studio in :
/home/yourusername/datafeed_studio
and you have two web sites, whose document root are :
/home/yourusername/sitea.com
/home/yourusername/siteb.com
Then what you need to do is make these two folders symbolically link to the Datafeed Studio installation folder, i.e. their content is now getting served from the Datafeed Studio installation folder.