This component has presented a solution to my quest for a true multisite feature for my Joomla-based website. I am a web designer and use Joomla for all my clients' websites. I have been working on a special, personal project for some time now and the multisite feature was the piece that has been missing. JMS Multisites is the answer I have been seeking. JMS Multisites does exactly what is supposed to do, and it presents ENDLESS possibilities. If you are unsure of how to configure your cPanel, WHM, or other advanced server-side configurations (for an advanced installation), Edwin will help you, and let me tell you...his support and knowledge is awesome.



JMS Multisites works right "out of the box", but you must be familiar Joomla and it's configuration. If you do not know how to configure JMS or a particular feature, there is a very informative FAQ and forum on the JMS website. Edwin consistently monitors this forum and answers all questions for free.



If you need advanced support or an advanced installation of JMS, then there is a paid-support feature that Edwin offers his customers. This support is well worth the money and time if you want to create an advanced multisite-capable website.



I was able to create "slave sites" on my own without support from Edwin, but the features I wanted on my website required advanced skills with server-side scripts and code. I was not familiar with this code language, so I paid for Edwin's support. Again, this support was well worth the money and my site is now set up the way I have envisioned for a long time.



The people who have posted negative reviews of this component obviously don't have any basic knowledge of Joomla; otherwise they would have been able to successfully implement and use JMS. Even if you do not have basic knowledge of Joomla, simple investigation into the JMS forum will help you get things up and running.



Edwin, thank you, thank you, thank you. You have gained a long-time customer with me! JMS Multisites is great, and I highly recommend it for any website needing multiple instances of a Joomla installation!



Great component!

I purchased this product in hopes that I could manager 3 websites on the sample template and share jomsocial and a few other components.

My attempt to make this happen became a quick nightmare right away. To avoid breaking something without being able to fix it, I hired a professional web designer and programer and asked if he could do this work for me.

He said sure and a few days later he reported that the component was giving him many issues right from the start. He had to manually go in and "hack" the component to get it to work my website the correct way.

This continued for weeks and for about 2 months the site never worked correctly. Maybe this would have been easier had we stated with multi sites but from our experience, multi sites with 1 existing site is just not possible.



Eventually we had to throw away the component, TRY and fix the site (not an easy task once things have been hacked and reprogrammed to try and get this lousy component to work).



The support was terrible. I know the owner cannot answer every little question thrown his way but a bone once in a while would be nice when you're buying such an expensive component for a hobby website. Instead he refuses to answer any questions unless we pay him the $99 for 1 hour of support.



My site now has bugs and issues we are still sorting through trying to get it back to normal.. who knows, maybe we'll have to remake the whole website (i jump for joy at this thought).



I did not expect a full refund after the product failed but I did ask the owner if he'd be willing to give us at least a percentage back since the component never worked as advertised and we wasted months trying to get it to work... his reply was no surprise.... No can do.



Lost money in the component, labor and time. Now back to square one.

What a great extension!



Though I have to admit it isn't the easiest component to setup there is help via the forum and Edwin is very quick to reply. And as for the compaint about the support videos, well I don't know where you'd get a more comprehensive set!



With regard to the billable support that has been mentioned and complained about I have to say it was absolutely brilliant! It may seem pricey but you get much more than usual. Edwin set me up a link to his own desktop where he explained exactly how it worked and how to set it up. HE talked me through the whole process as he did it. Much better than paying less and not having a clue how it was done! Well worth the money!



Well done Edwin!!

Excellent component and after you learn how to manipulate it is working great, their service is excellent I had a problem and they arranged for me it quickly

Thank you,

Raviv Sagiv

Our client asked us to manage upwards of 600 websites based on five template themes based on one set of tested and compiled extensions we created for them.. How do we do that without spending hundreds of hours updating and cross checking and .... How do we keep track of who gets what template, how do we create a copy of the site quickly so we can get them trained and move content in... We came across this extension and it solved all of our needs.



We just purchased the multisite and additional plugins to automate and create our multi site system. Now we can create new sites in minutes based on our predefined templates. We can share data and users at many levels and allow our clients to control only the parts they need to update and maintain their individual sites while we can do quick extension and security updates to the master site. This one extension has enabled us to become an enterprise level website provider in less than 8 hours. There are some complexities one must understand and there are a few rules that must be adhered to but Edwin is really helpful and if you do purchase support time, it is so worth it. We wish we could hire him full time!

This extension seemed like exactly what i needed, so I decided to buy the download. With hours of reading the poor documentation, I finally managed to make the extension do something close to what I wanted. Since the documentation is so bad, and sometimes written in really poor english, you really have to struggle to get it work. This extension look like something built by a developer FOR a developer, and not really meant for the public.



Another thing that's not helping, is that this extension i really user-unfriendly, with descriptions really hard to understand even with the documentation in hand. For example, when creating sites from the frontend, I really don't understand why the user have to enter both alias and prefix? The prefix should be autocreated, and not put on the user registring.



The worst thing about this extension is that in order to "sell installations" you have to buy quouta from the developer. Really disturbing and hard to find information about on their website.



I really hope that this extension gets forked in order to get a good idea work for the public. Since the developer doesn't care about more than the user's money.



I'm strongly considering this myself right now in my frustration over this bad extension.

Hello,



I decided to buy this extension after reading many great reviews and understanding that this is the extension that will help me build multi sites fast and easy.



After purchasing, I downloaded the extension and tried to install.



The installation did not work but after couple of e-mails (few hours) I got it installed. Part of the response I got was saying that there is no support on e-mail for the extension and that I can buy support time at an hourly rate (higher than the cost of the product).



Trying to configure it took a lot of time - the user manual is not well written, the videos are long and not indexed well (you may need to listen to a 40 minutes video just in order to see a section that goes for 3 minutes) and the user interface is not self explanatory. In addition, there is plenty of options to buy extra features (yes, for additional money).



When I complained and asked if there is money back refund, I was referred to the refund policy which says there is no refund.



Bottom line, there is no refund, there is no support. After wasting more than 3 days on trying to figure out how to make it work properly, I uninstalled the extension, replicated my website and database without the extension in within 3 hours finished having my other site.



It might be a great product but it did not work for me!



IG

Basically, this componant can bring you super close to creating a hosted store service like Shopify, using the front end engine to offer "install a site with your domain name" in a few clicks.



The advantage of such platform can be that it's Joomla based and enables to install further apps (w/ your moderation or without), and that's mean a much more stable and open platform to offer to developers, as far as offer them to disengage their site from the hosted service and keep on running their own website, by allowing them to import the DB and Source files to another hosting company, or simply get full access to their db and files on your cloud.



Just my thoughts and wanting to contribute something, best of luck



They have great support and customer service team, superb really

I started using JMS Multi-Sites about a year and a half ago, and have truly learned to love it. Yes, it was a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but the docs, forum, and excellent client service took care of any issues I ran into. Since starting to use JMS, I have contracted Edwin (developer of JMS) to do some custom work & he always conducts himself at the highest level of service and respect. And, he always goes above and beyond to make sure that the work he does is of the highest caliber. ... thanks Edwin for the awesome service & incredible extensions!

I find this product to be very useful. It is a fantastic product. Try it out first without changing all the settings. If you start to change the settings before you get the hang of it, you will be lost. Its a very complex system. Now when I fully understand how it works I love it!