# How would you handle this?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-you-handle-this/152151 "2008-10-30T16:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![ressister](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@ressister](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ressister)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-would-you-handle-this/152151/1 "2008-10-30T16:32:26Z")

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Hi there,

I currently have two unique sites each requiring a news section which  
I planned to content manage through blog software. I installed  
Mephisto on the the same server as the two apps, and had it running  
successfully, providing news to one of the two sites now in  
operation. I then tried getting Mephisto running in multi-site mode,  
but it’s not working, and I’m wondering, whether it’s worth pulling  
the few strands of hair remaining on my head out over this.

Why am I running this blogging engine in memory on my server when I  
can free up the memory its using for either a forum or other  
mongrels? What would you do to get news onto the two sites? Here are  
my thoughts/questions. Let me know if I’m missing something, and how  
you’d handle this.

Option 1: kill Mephisto, use something like Blogger to publish to a  
directory for each of the two sites and setup apache to point  
[news.mydomain1.com](http://news.mydomain1.com) and [news.mydomain2.com](http://news.mydomain2.com) to each unique news  
directory. I would want to support user comments on the news, and I  
don’t know that would work in this “static” scenario? Don’t know much  
about the blogging-sphere.

Option 2: host the blog somewhere else using a publishing tool like  
Blogger, and point the sub-domains [news.mydomain1.com](http://news.mydomain1.com) and  
[news.mydomain2.com](http://news.mydomain2.com) to the online instances. Not sure if that’s even  
possible?

Option 3: Figure out how to debug and get Mephisto working in multi-  
site setup.

What am I missing? What would you do to get basic news onto two sites  
of yours allowing user comments, but without adding two much overhead?

I look forward to your responses and thanks!  
-Alex