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I'm surprised they didn't come up with that solution on the first pass. I used to work for a web hosting company and I designed and wrote a similar 'dispatch' system for their private label customer portal that was used for resellers. Much better maintenance and performance.

That was my first thought too, seems like the simpler solution and the way I've built multi-site apps in the past.

It sounds like they are still using a different database per site, as opposed to one database and scoping data by an account_id. I wonder what the performance gain is over the complexity it adds.

I remember this is the same way that FogBugz was setup too and they ran into issue when they had so many small databases instead of one large one.

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