During the drupal plugin/update manager discussions I had an aha moment. One of those weird and wonderful ideas came back to me. What if most of the code lived in the db? One would be able to arrange the co-habitation of several concurrent versions of the same website relatively easy. Backups would mean database backup.

Funnily enough, this can help two opposite (scale-wise) types of users - the bottom end, cheapest or free hosting ones and the load balanced crowd.

Why "back"? Well... I had this idea ever since the user streams appeared in php, version 4.3 or there abouts, but it just nestled cosily in the back of my mind, waiting for love, the shy little thing.

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