Using Multisite to manage client websites

  • Resolved femerich

    (@femerich)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    I have been considering using a multisite installation of WP to manage the websites that I create for my clients. I have a web design business with clients that are in a similar demographic so the set up is very similar from site to site. Any opinions on the matter? Good, bad?

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  • Well.. its basically what the the Multi domain plugin does for you. I think its a good plan, you will be maintaining all the updates from one single point -> Easy administration. Downside is that downtime does count for all of them..

    Thread Starter femerich

    (@femerich)

    Thank you. I just needed to hear that from someone else. I hear a lot about it being used for “pay to blog” networks, but not for this type of thing. I suppose the two are similar enough. I just needed a little more confirmation before I jumped in with both feet and started doing this! Thanks!

    As long as you’re explaining that they sign up to your network, then go for it.

    I even wrote a guest post about this way back:

    https://www.problogdesign.com/how-to/build-a-client-development-site-with-wordpressmu/

    while the terms are different, the process is basically the same.

    Thread Starter femerich

    (@femerich)

    Andrea – thanks! I searched your site a while ago for some info on this, but must have missed it. Thank you for the link!

    p.s. – You’re responses on this forum have been a huge help to me.

    Andrea, After a successful install of WPMS for my other biz, your domain mapping plugin, and several sites running JUST FINE,.. I’m now asking myself, “Why not do this for all my other client sites?”

    So I too am considering doing this for my webdesign business as well. Is there a downside?

    Thanks in advance, Steve

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    Email.

    If they have their own mail server, it can be convoluted to set that up. You CAN, but you have to be real smart.

    Also, they can’t just FTP up files so they only get WP and nothing more.

    @ipstenu Yea, over the years I’ve gotten away from hosting email anyways. (pain!) I now recommend all my clients use Google to host the email. So I’m not sure if that will be a problem.

    FTP – They would not need to FTP anything. If for whatever reason they asked, I would just do it for them.

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