WordPress Multisite or Different Installations?

  • Hello,

    I’m working on this plan that seeks to make owning a blog/e-commerce site easy and affordable. I’ll simply take care of the technical side of things while clients focus on adding contents or products to their sites.

    I have different plans/pricing they can choose from – the higher the plan they go for, the higher the resources they have access to – just like hosting companies, or better still wordpress.com.

    I’m currently considering the best method for setting up the blogs/stores for clients. Clients will go up to around 50 – 100 within the year. My major concern is resource usage (Disk space/ram/cpu) and well, ease of managing the sites. My options are;

    Multisite: Use a multisite installation to handle the site setup. With the multisite setup, I intend to have 1 installation for the blog networks and another installation for the e-commerce sites – on different domains; I just prefer to separate them so blogging related themes and plugins can just be on the blog network site and vice versa. Also, so it’s easier to migrate should the need to switch host arise, taking into consideration database size.

    Cpanel on VPS: The 2nd option is to create individual Cpanel accounts and set resource limit. That basically implies different installations and having to create Cpanel accounts each time a new client signs up. VPS account allows one to create as many Cpanel as they require and set the resource limit for each account.

    I basically want to know what’s recommended and safer. Thanks

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  • “Recommended” is hard because both options have their own merits and drawbacks. One thing to think about is the other services that you’d need to provide outside of WordPress (eg: email, DNS, etc). Unless you can have those set up for individual users to manage for thmselves, it might (I stress might) be a better idea to have separate hosting accounts and individual installations.

    As far as safer, normally a Network would be safer because you control any code, themes and plugins that are added, and users can’t mess with that. With separate installations, the users could do what ever they needed (or wanted) to, so they could do a lot more “bad things”. But on the other hand, if you have something go wrong it will cripple a network, where single installations you’ll only trash one site.

    So, there’s no easy answer that anyone could give you for this. I think you’ll need to do a bit more thinking for yourself and see which one you’re more confortable with.

    Thread Starter Sunday Ukafia

    (@sukafia)

    @catacaustic thanks for your input, I really appreciate.

    “A WordPress Multisite network allows you to run and manage multiple WordPress sites or blogs from a single WordPress installation. It enables you to create new sites instantly and manage them using the same username and password. You can even allow other users to signup and create their own blogs on your domain” check more here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/
    Maike
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