1 database with multiple websites

We have several web sites all with a different look and feel. We would like to use the same forum database for all our sites. Each site must maintain their own look and feel when the forum is being used. is this possiable.

We have al ready purchased your fourm and are getting to luanch it this friday. So i know some of the look and feel is defined in the data base.

Can we have one database with multiple look and feel ?

What would the pricing be ?

Thanks
Greg Powers
http://www.PlasticSurgery.com

Hi Greg,

The software and its license does not support multiple sites (themes) with one instance (database).

Samuel,

Could you clarify this for me - you mean that each forum must have its own data *table*?

Thanks,
Rob

for example, on this support site, we have many different forums (announcement, pre-sales Q & A, Feature Suggestion, etc.), and they all reside in one table in a single database. You don't need separate database table for each of these logical forum (forum created using the admin control panel). However, if you want to install the forum software on 2 separate website addresses or URLs (for example, this support forum and the demo forum), you will need two sets of independent tables in two different databases.

Samuel, This implies that one can have multiple instances of playground each running against their own database on the same web server and the same SQL server as long as they are licenced.
Can you confirm?

We will be purchasing more licences. What, if any, performance hit could be expected by splitting the forums onto multiple instances of Playground and setting up a separate database for each.

We're currently running a Dual Pentium 2.66 GHz with 2.5G RAM, and dual Intel PRO 1000 MT NIC cards.

yes, you can set up a database on your server for each instance of the forum. The software is designed with share hosting users in mind so you won't have any problem doing so.

ORIGINAL: Samuel

yes, you can set up a database on your server for each instance of the forum. The software is designed with share hosting users in mind so you won't have any problem doing so.

So with a single license, I can have mulitple databases as long as they are within the same web site?

no, with a single license, you can only install it ONCE. Once means a copy of the database objects (tables, stored procs, views, etc.) exists on a single database. If you have two licenses, you can install the objects on either two separate databases (ideal) or on a single database by using different user names.

I can have mulitple databases as long as they are within the same web site?

I don't want to misintepret your question, but I am not 100% sure what you meant by having "multiple databases" and "within the same web site?". I attempted to answer your question above, but if I didn't get it right, please elaborate on this question.

I think I have the same question, so will re-word it and see...

The scenario is like this;
 
1 web server (physical)
1 database server (physical)
2 web sites, say “Women’s Clothing” and “Men’s Clothing” on different URLs and on different Virtual Webs on IIS.
But the same company running both web sites.
 
If someone wants to use ASPplayground.NET for “Women’s Clothing” that goes with that site under the Women’s Clothing web site (1 license), but then wants to add a forum to the “Men’s Clothing” web site....
 
Does that cost an extra license?
 
In other words, does my cost go up by the “box” (server) or by the “site” (URL)?
 
I don’t care if it’s one database or two or what.  My forums will be low traffic anyway so performance won’t be an issue. 

the cost goes up by the Site (URL), since you will have 2 concurrent instances of the software running at the same time, one for each Site (URL).

Maybe I can ask a similar but slightly different question.
 
I am a clothier, I have a site for mens cloting, another for womens clothing.
 
In my forums I want topics or categories for both mens and womens clothing SAME FORUM SAME DATABASE.
 
I want my mens clothing site to use the same forums (TOPICS, CATEGORIES, ETC...) as the womens clothing site.  However I want one forum on mensclothing.com to be all blue and have a certain look and feel.  On the other womens clothing site I want a bit of a different look and feel and some different colors etc....
 
So in essence what they and I am asking here is can I run the front end seperate from the back end and use multiple front ends with different color schemes driven from the same database (e.g. The content).  Or are you also storing forum configuration settings such as colors etc.... from in the database?

Or are you also storing forum configuration settings such as colors etc.... from in the database?

Yes, this is what we do, but we also cache CSS on the web server. This means you can edit the cached CSS file on your own to make it different on one website from another. As for color scheme, you can have both sites getting different color schemes with a simple tweak of a stored proc.