Seeking advice ahead of multisite installation

  • Hi,
    I’ve worked with WP for a decade on shared hosting, so I’m familiar with WP itself. I want to install multisite on my Ubuntu VPS to better facilitate my pet projects and clients, but am still a novice with running Ubuntu, Apache, PHP etc, so I need some advice.
    Currently this server is home to mp3 files of my podcast and a php form one of my clients regularly uses, running on domain with Apache and PHP 7.
    What hazards should I be aware of which might pooch that current arrangement? For instance, should I avoid associating the install with my top-level domain to preserve its Apache configuration?

    Any help appreciated ??

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  • multisite is pretty much a regular wp site in regards to how it interacts with your server.

    the only oddities come about regarding users or when you want to do Domain Mapping on subsites (ie use a different domain name) — but these days that’s painless and takes just a couple of minutes.

    in some ways multisite can reduce server resources because you can have subsites dedicated to different sets of plugins… ie a woocommerce shop can be kept separate from your main site or whatever.

    all sites, subsites and primary, use the same database tables for users. various plugins are available if you want to tweak roles. keep in mind, users can have multiple roles (so plugin devs don’t know this)

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