sugarsugar

Thanks everyone, I’m going to take the plunge! ??

Thanks for the reply! There was a lot of food for thought there and I’m leaning towards using multisite but I have one concern that was brought up on the link you had there:

(Under the Hosting Small Client Sites heading…) Also, if he does something weird that spikes his traffic 500% (like last month), it doesn’t affect the rest of my sites.

This was given as a reason NOT to use multisite which seemed somewhat compelling to me, although I’m not sure if it matters considering what I’m planning on doing. I’m not planning on having these blogs connected to each other in any real way other than using the same domain registrar and host and possibly the same WordPress install. Let’s say I’m going to have three sites (these are just examples not my actual domains, ha-ha):

https://www.ilovetardises.com – about TARDISes
https://www.brainswhataretheygoodfor.com – about memory improvement exercises
https://www.fooditswhatsfordinner.com – another food blog

They’re all separate domains, content, look and feel with one user, me ?? This seems to be the a big factor with some of the comments on the page you mentioned. A lot of their considerations were maintaining clients sites and I can see why multisite wouldn’t be practical there.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems mine would be an appropriate use of multisite. While upgrading isn’t this huge issue for me it does seems a bit simpler to just update one instance rather than multiple. That said, if one site for some strange reason (hopefully) draws a ton of traffic, will this pose some kind of difficulty that wouldn’t be a problem with separate installs? I just want to be sure that I’m not going to regret this down the line and have a ton of work to separate the sites out later on.

Also, I have played around with multisite a bit on a test server I set up and nothing seems off-putting to me, although it took me awhile to get used to it. Sometimes I got confused whether I was in the Network Admin or Site Admin and was wondering where all the themes went, whoops!

Thanks again!

Just wanted to thank you for this! My problem was with my “About Me” post and it turns out it was the same problem! Thanks! ??

Yeah, that’s what I think I’m going to do too. I’ve been searching still since I made the first post and I can’t find one good reason to do this with multiple databases. If I ever get to the point where backing up the database proves to be a problem then I’ll reevaluate from there, and hopefully if I need to change something I’ll know how to do it by then, or can afford to hire someone to do it for me ??

Seriously, thanks so much!

Oh thanks, I actually included that link in my original post.

I guess the questions I asked aren’t appropriate for this forum.

I’ll keep searching for some answers and when I find them I’ll post them here to help others who might have the same questions.

Thanks for trying guys! ??

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it! ??

Just wondering though, do you know of a place (book even) that outlines answers to some of the questions I asked? I’ll stay a novice if I don’t learn about these things, and I’d like to educate myself.

Thanks!