Hub and Node - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="overview">Overview</h2><p>The Vanilla Hub is intended for cases where dozens or hundreds of separate self-contained communities are required. New instances of Vanilla can be spawned within seconds through the Admin Dashboard or via the API. </p><p>This type of implementation allows you to set up one community as a template, then create Nodes that are copies of this setup.</p><p>For most purposes, each <strong>Node</strong> is a <strong>Single Community</strong> with the added ability of being <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/52-multisite-sync" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">synced</a> with changes made on the Hub. Each Node is otherwise independent - <strong>separate</strong> user lists, private message exchanges, and activity streams. </p><p><a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/52-hub-sync" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Read more about the Hub Sync here.</a></p><p>Each Node is accessible via either a subdomain <em>or</em> a subfolder of a domain shared by the whole Hub. This is called the <strong>Hub URL Format</strong>.</p><p>Unlike subcommunities, each Node has its own Database, and therefore individual user points, analytics, moderation queues, etc.</p><p><a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/3-setting-up-your-custom-domain#hubnode" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">You can read more about Hub and Node custom domains here</a>.</p><h2 data-id="creating-new-sites">Creating new sites</h2><ul><li>Log into the Hub</li><li>Go to Settings</li><li>Go to Sites (nested under "Site Hub") </li><li>Go to “Add Site” in the top right corner</li><li>Enter a <em>friendly</em> name for this site</li><li>Enter a slug (cannot contain special character or capital letters)</li><li>Wait a few moments and your new site will be all set!</li></ul><p></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> </article> </main>