Title: Architecture advice
Last modified: September 19, 2018

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# Architecture advice

 *  [maxfrever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfrever/)
 * (@maxfrever)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/architecture-advice/)
 * Hello forum!
 * We are in the early days of an initiative where we, as the parent organisation,
   want to create a sort of ‘franchise’ model where ‘child’ organisations sign up
   to our parent not-for-profit and are offered a pre-developed WordPress website
   structure for ongoing development. This would include template/security/plugins.
   The environment is Local Stories so independent organisations will be sourcing
   news/events/information in their region. They will have their own URL eg. myorganisationnewyork.
   org, myorganisationseattle.org etc.
 * What is the best structural arrangement for 100+ sites (and potentially 500)?
   If all the sites are sitting on one server (multisite) and one site is compromised
   and the hosting account suspended, the whole 100+ falls over but if each site
   has its own hosting, one falling over will not affect the others.
 * Pretend for the sake of the question that cost isn’t an issue because we recurring
   expenses (eg. Wordfence, template etc. etc. are about $200 p.a. and these costs
   are part of the child organisation’s annual running costs). We aren’t influenced
   by cost, we’re influenced by building a bullet-proof structure.

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 *  [alhadialimohammad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhadialimohammad/)
 * (@alhadialimohammad)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/architecture-advice/#post-10714755)

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