Seeking Advice: Best Way to Host Multiple Websites on One Yunohost Server?

[olivia1]

Hello everyone,

I am relatively new to Yunohost and absolutely love the simplicity of self-hosting. I have successfully set up a couple apps, and configured a domain, now I am hoping to expand a little bit.

I would like to host multiple websites (wordpress, static sites, and maybe a custom app down the road) all using a single instance of Yunohost. I have added domains using the admin panel, but I’m not sure if I am thinking about it correctly with regards to SSL, ports, and separating apps.

I have a few questions:

Would it be better to use sub-domains (for example, blog.mydomain.com) or completely different domains?
How does LetsEncrypt handle multiple domain certs in Yunohost?
Can I run multiple instances of wordpress or other apps with out getting them in conflict with one another?

Multiple admin users for yunohost

My use case is I want to help a web developer friend to host his websites and manage his domain names without being a super user. He would have access only to the creation of domains and installation of app on his domains and an sftp access to upload files. This could maybe be achieve with an application that would give access to the domain and application api. Like a limited version of the one used by the admin user and using a kind of sudo to install stuffs.

I would really appreciate any advice, tips or lessons on devops from anyone who’s done this before. does anyone know what is Devops? I’m just trying to be careful, and avoid making mistakes early on, and want to create a clean, stable setup.

Thank you, and kudos to the Yunohost team for such a great project!

Cheers,
olivia

[jarod5001]

@olivia1

Would it be better to use sub-domains (for example, blog.mydomain.com) or completely different domains?

That depends on your needs.
If domain1.com will serve a certain objective that needs other apps, they probably will be installed on subdomains of that domain.

@olivia1

Can I run multiple instances of wordpress or other apps with out getting them in conflict with one another?

Yep, even better, some apps can interact with others to serve certain objectives

@olivia1

does anyone know what is Devops

Don’t know. Don’t make things complicated

@olivia1

avoid making mistakes

Then take a sheet of paper and plan correctly your setup. Make it coherent and simple.

@olivia1

stable setup

As an administrator of your server, you have the responsibility of managing it. Make multiple backups, stay up-to-date, avoid complex customisations, if you have issues, ask for help here