Hi all,

I am currently working on a project to internationalize a website. I have an international version and parallel local versions on their respective TLDs.

The next step I want to take is to get the hosting in the respective countries, but the current CMS doesn't allow for it as it is installed on one tld (secure socket issues), so all of our content is stored in one location on the server and for each language the content is being projected to its tld.

Does anyone have experience with this and can give me tips so that the content for each website can be hosted locally but managed by the same system centrally?

Thanks in advance!

If the content is going to be the same and in the same language on the various tlds, what you are trying to do is not a good idea because the duplicate content will be filtered anyway. If each cctld & hosting is unique content or in a different language it should be ok.

as to your cms, how you handle multiple hosts will depend on the capabilities of the system. If it is open source this will be easily done by a competent programmer. If it is a proprietary system then it may or may not not be possible.

If cms can't do this, one thing to note is that the cart/https pages could all be somewhere like https://cart.domain.com and then each cctld site could link to it for shopping (assuming that the cart supports all of the languages/currency). So even if your cms doesn't have any way to do multiple hosts, you could build a decent, unique html front-end site for each of the cctlds. And just link them to a single secure cart. Hope this helps.

The content is not going to be entirely the same and translated into the local language.

Thanks for the info, its very helpful!

I think you should have all the sites on one TLD including the translations. Then forward the other TLDs into the main TLD site. This way, you can avoid getting flagged for duplicate content.