Posted by eaton on February 24, 2009 at 4:19am
A number of solutions are springing up for deploying site configuration (spaces, patterns, etc). And solutions are starting to spring up around deployment of custom sites as well - the Aegir project and the Domains module both provide tools for pushing out multiple sites on a single infrastructure.
No system allows users of a central site (say, www.foo.com) to create a new multisite instance with a given profile underneath the same domain. A system that allows users of a central site to "clone" a prefabricated site at a subdomain would make a world of Drupal-based sites much easier to implement.

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I see this is a popular post
I see this is a popular post :-)
How do you envision this working?
I want to do something, but don't yet have anything to do, and have thought about this before, so I'd love to talk some more about it.