Title: Multiple WordPress site, same domain name. Shared or Separated Database?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Multiple WordPress site, same domain name. Shared or Separated Database?

 *  [leev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leev18/)
 * (@leev18)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-site-same-domain-name-shared-or-separated-database/)
 * Hello, I have multiple WordPress sites that was installed in the same domain 
   name, but each have their own sub domain name or their own directory folder.
 * Is it best to have them shared, or have separate database of their own when installing
   multiple WordPress sites on the same domain? Or, does it matter at all?

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-site-same-domain-name-shared-or-separated-database/#post-5651071)
 * I do not think it makes any difference at the server since each site is accessing
   the server with its own MySQL User and I would guess the server does not care
   where the site’s table_prefix happens to be located. And to have shared users(
   something I am trying to do), the sites need to share a database anyway. On the
   flip-side of that, however, making backups of tables for individual sites can
   be a bit tedious since all tables for all sites are visible to/at each…and then
   if something goes really wrong and a database gets skewed, there is the risk 
   of multiple sites going down all at once.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-site-same-domain-name-shared-or-separated-database/#post-5651085)
 * The easy way to it is:
 * A single site, or single network installation = 1 database.
 * Multiple separete sites (not a network) = multiple databases.
 * This just helps to keep things separated so if anything does go wrong it’s only
   one site that’s affected, not everything.

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