Two servers, Two multisites and One domain

  • We have approximately 100 WordPress sites right now running as vms on one server. We have one primary domain and all of our other WordPress instances are subdomains for that domain.

    What we want to do is set up two servers with a multisite instance on each one. For the domains, the first server will have primarydomain.org the second server will have secondarydomain.org

    The tricky part is we want to only use primarydomain.org for all the subdomains on the first and second server. Secondarydomain.org will not be used. How would we set up the second server multisite so that the site generated there were redirected and displayed as subdomains of the primarydomain.org domain?

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  • If you don’t want to use the secondary domain at all, Why are you trying configure the second server with it. Why don’t you just scale the first one onto the second server and use a load balance like mentioned in this article?

    Thread Starter ammonlee

    (@ammonlee)

    Thanks for the article. I think that is exactly what we are looking for. We currently host with siteground and I’m not sure they offer a load balancing service. We were looking at just getting two of their dedicated servers. Since they require each server to have a domain and ip associated with it that is why we would have a domain we wouldn’t be using. Is it possible to do something similar with this kind of hosting service?

    Well i am not sure about site ground, you should contact their support to get a better idea and then decide accordingly. If they do not offer a load balancer then it might be very complicated to solve the problem.I am not sure how you are hosted now, but you could consider the cloud hosting that can scale as your user base grows as a last resort or if need be move to a different hosting provider.

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