I plan to use Wordpress for CMS and SuiteCRM for CRM - opinions? experience?

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I’ve used SuiteCRM before and liked it.

I’ve dabbled with Wordpress but i didn’t need it for myself.

Now I see a business opportunity to help businesses set up their websites to use Wordpress for their frontend - the CMS - and SuiteCRM for CRM.

I’m the guinea pig for this idea.

I’ve setup a new domain at a new hosting provider that has Wordpress packages.

They’ve no experience with SuiteCRM.

I plan to have separate mysql databases for wordpress and suitecrm.

I’ve got Wordpress installed in public_html now.

I’m wondering where to put suitcrm’s files.

Put them in a subfolder under public_html? potential problem when wordpress’s files are updated

or setup a subdomain and put suitecrm’s files there? - keep them away from wordpress’s files

feedback, opinions and experiences appreciated

thx

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I personally think that it would be a slightly better solution to put your Wordpress into one sever and SuiteCRM into a different server?

As if you have any problem on a server, the other won’t be impacted. :slight_smile:

It does not imply not to use a subdomain as well, you can clearly target a subdomain toward a different server !

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Keeping both separate would be the best option.
First advantage is security. if one is compromised, the other can still work.
secondly, website visitors loads will not affect CRM.

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how many times have you set up wordpress and suitecrm on the same domain?

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i have at least 5 installations that run WP on Front end and CRM on subdomains. Subdomain run on separate server instance.

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let me see if i understand what you wrote -

you have wp in public_html of domain: example.com

you have suitecrm in subdomain: crm.example.com

and you have separate databases/admin users for each

and you have all public_htmls on one server

and you have all suitecrm subdomains on another separate server

when you have a wp landing page/contact form there is not a problem feeding that contact info into suitecrm on its subdomain: crm.example.com?

has there been any problems setting up other wp-suitecrm interactions when the need arose?

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Pushing Contact from the FORM is not an issue. Just a simple hook in functions to push to CRM entryPoint and there handle what has been posted.

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thx for your advice

here’s my plan:

wp in public_html - already done

suitecrm in a subdomain

wp and suitecrm each have:

  1. their own mysql database
  2. their own separate admin user
  3. their own separate db users

however they will be on the same shared server

i will use cron jobs to dump each database

then scheduled tasks to pull the database backups from my host to my personal machine