Are Drupal Multi-Sites Going Obsolete? Exploring Site Templates and Recipes

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David Duymelinck critically examines the future of Drupal multi-sites in light of site templates and recipes. He outlines traditional multi-site benefits—single codebase deployments, user/content sharing via Domain module, and customisation through Config Split. However, he flags issues like unequal resource consumption and configuration drift as sites diverge over time.

David sees site templates and recipes as more maintainable alternatives. Site templates simplify setup without inheriting multi-site drawbacks. Recipes allow modular feature additions tailored to specific site needs, avoiding unnecessary complexity. However, he notes that scaling these tools across many sites still demands solid developer tooling.

He concludes that single-site setups using site templates are less error-prone and better suited for the future. His argument favours long-term sustainability over the perceived efficiency of traditional multi-site architectures..

Reference: Are Drupal Multi-Sites Going to Become a Niche? by David Duymelinck (24 June 2025)

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