multisite vs. multiple installs

  • I’m new to WP and I’m trying to gauge the problems / benefits of a single multisite install, versus several separate installs.

    This will be a very small number of blogs (only 2 for now), each hosted under its own hostname, on a dedicated machine. There will be a number of users posting to any of these blogs. Once in a while, the posts will overlap (will need to be submitted to any or all blogs at once); otherwise, the posts will be separate. If there’s an easy way to do that, I’ll go with the WP multisite; otherwise, several separate WP instances seems easier to me.

    Any thoughts or comments?

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  • I was in a similar situation a while ago and decided to give Multisite a go for ease of a single network login etc, also I think that Multisite would take less server space than several single WP sites, though this maynot be an issue, also only a single upgrade of the next WP etc.
    You can also add a development site in your network so you can use that to play/experiment with, if you make a mistake, no real harm done.

    One thing I would suggest is to use the domain mapping plugin so you can have domain names instead of sub domains or sub directories, domain mapping is a little tricky to setup if you are new to WP, as I was, but there are some good tutorials and YouTube videos on how to do it.

    I think that going the Multisite is a good route if you think you are going to have several blogs.

    The only drawback I have found is that one or two plugins don’t work for a network, but there often seems to be a network version.

    But, hey ho, I’m pretty new to WP, so some more experienced users may have better advice.

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