Ok, this is a big 'un, but I figured I'd ask here since you guys are so active and amazingly knowledgeable.
Is there a way to set up a drupal installation so that people can literally buy a website? I've researched a whole bunch of ways of doing this, everything from multi-site installs to Aegir to organic groups. The biggest caveat is: we want to be able to have buyers have a URL for their website, so whatever automated process occurs, we want it to be mappable in that way.
Perhaps the real question is how to set up the rewrite file to handle that...I'm thinking that the best we could do with this to make it as instant as possible is a single installation with an automated URL formatter, and then granting a role with Ubercart upon purchase. Then use Themekey or something similar to map their theme onto their pages. The trick would be figuring out how to make it so that http://www.baseservicesite.com/user5/home was the same as www.user5isawesome.com, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions, broad or specific? Thanks a million!