What should I do? A multisite, a single website or many websites?

I'm working on a big website project, we have some time allowed to redo the website first.

Currently, it's a multisite with 2 working sites, one is the landing page and the main content, the other is the blog. I've got 2 other hidden sites, one is a wiki which is not ready, one is my working space (right now I'm planing on fusing them all), I also have many dead project hidden behind.

Am I using the multisite properly? If I do, how can I scale my website effectively? If I don't, is it better to split them into many different website, or a single huge website?

This is a work-in-progress, a lot more is going to be added in the future.

Thanks in advance.

Topic blog wiki multisite migration customization Wordpress

Category Web

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You can have a different theme for each sub-site in multisite. Just set up the subsite, then select the theme from the available ones. If the sites are related to each other in some way, then having a common domain name might be an advantage (although there are some redirect things you can do to fix that).

Based on the limited information you provided, I'd go with a multisite. Add lots of available themes as needed to the main site, then select the theme you want to use for each sub-site.

Note that multisites will create 8-10 tables in your database for each sub-site, so make sure your hosting place will support that. Some hosting places will want you to use a premium plan for lots of tables in a database, rather than their base/cheapest plan.

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