Drupal Solutions Comparison For Multiple Sites With Related Content - Acquia Site Factory vs Aegir Project vs Custom Stack

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Imagine you have a scenario where an enterprise wants to be able to spin up multiple websites, micro sites to be precise, which are independent of each other, allow for pushing and pulling content from a single source of truth or from each other, are easily manageable and independently configurable.

You would be surprised to know how common a scenario that is for many enterprises.

I had to research various options and propose an architecture for precisely such a scenario. I might have excluded some of the obvious choices, so if you have suggestions they are always welcome.

Drupal Solutions Comparison For Multiple Sites With Related Content - Acquia Site Factory vs Aegir Project vs Custom Stack from Sumeet Pareek

To me, barring high initial upfront costs, Acquia site factory is the obvious winner as a solution of choice to manage multiple related sites. I remember Acquia started with the vision of becoming to Drupal what Ubuntu and Redhat are to Linux, and then over time became the much needed stable support and a go to organization for enterprise adoption of Drupal. I am glad to see that with site factory Acquia has done a great job of 'listening to the customers' and has delivered a valuable Drupal platform.

I am curious how others experience has been with site factory, or with the aegir project, or both!