sonnymanou

I’m having this problem on a few of my sites too. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello Elanio,

I have shared hosting with 1and1.co.uk. As you already know, they do not support wildcard subdomains. In the past, I have tried to set up a multisite WordPress installation and manually set subdomains via my 1and1.co.uk control panel. It didn’t work. I wondered exactly what it was that you did?

I would also like to be able to point different domains at the root directory of the wordpress multisite and have them resolve to specific sub sites. Were you able to do this?

Regards,
Sonny

Thank you Elanio.

Are you using subdomains, or subdirectories?

Regards,
Sonny.

Hello Elanio,

Can you please confirm that you got a wordpress multisite working with 1and1? Are you on a shared server?

Thank you.
Sonny

From your link I can see that it IS possible to do what I’m asking. Thank you for your input. Andrew.

S

Thank you for your reply, Andrew.

When you say copies, you mean complete copies? (Not different tables in different databases?)

S

By default, WordPress is aware of one database. That’s why there’s only 1 set of database credentials in your wp-config.php file.

I understand this, thank you.

You can put different tables in different databases on the same server, but how are you going to make WordPress aware of where each table is?

That is the question that needs to be answered. If I knew the answer, then I wouldn’t need to ask you! I’m not ungrateful, thank you for sharing some of your time with me.

“Sharding” and “clustering” are two totally new terms to add to my vocabulary – when I finally understand what they mean. I have come across them in the search for a solution to my problem. I feel that my situation is not so unique that nobody else has thought of a way to use more than one database to run WordPress.

S

This doesn’t help me, Fonglh, thanks for your answer though.

I know that it is possible to “shard”. Which apparently means running an installation over several databases on different servers. But does sharding mean that each database has the same data, or can they each house a different table?

If it is possible to have each database hold a different table, (or tables,) then it seems to me that each database would hold less data than the sum of all of them? Right?

And finally, would it be possible to have all of those databases on the same server? (The tech guy at the hosting company seemed to think that it was possible, I just needed to find out here.)

If the site was to take off in the way that I imagine, I would have to spread the load over several servers soon, anyway. For this reason, it would be a good idea for me to get a head start now rather than later.

Sonny