ASP.NET multi-Tenant Application

Question

I have an Asp.net application 3.5. I want to be able to allow multiple/ different clients to access the same application but using different URL\'s. I have already managed to co

Answer 1

The common case is that you'll have to configure a new virtual site for each of your new tenants during account provisioning. See Creating a New Virtual Server on how to achieve this programatically. Some though argue (with convincing arguments...) that spinning up an appdomain for each tenant is a waste of resources and one should use routing in the application that inspect the HOST header, see Multi-tenant ASP.NET MVC – Introduction.

Configuring IIS/ASP to respond to your tenant sub-dmains is the easy part. The real problem will be to configure DNS for your tenants, and that depends on your DNS solution.