Title: Multiple WP installs & security
Last modified: May 27, 2019

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# Multiple WP installs & security

 *  [mfogarty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfogarty/)
 * (@mfogarty)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wp-installs-security-2/)
 * Hi All,
 * Any advise here would be much appreciated. The scenario I’m looking at is an 
   on-prem hosting of multiple (possibly several dozen) WordPress instances each
   of which would be entirely separate sites with different administrators. Many
   of these admins would have limited technical skills and/or experience with WP
   upgrades, security etc. and could not necessarily be trusted to do their updates,
   manage their plugins, harden their installs… Multi-site not at option because
   of this.
 * Is there any way to achieve enough isolation from a security perspective on shared
   architecture (e.g one web front end server, one database server) or would the
   common ground of the web server user mean this could only be done with one set
   of servers per install? Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wp-installs-security-2/#post-11576056)
 * You can put all the databases on one MySQL/Maria server but be sure each WP site
   uses different credentials. When setting up the virtual hosts for your web server,
   set PHP to run under a different user ID for each site using php-fpm (instead
   of mod_php). That should provide the necessary isolation.
 * If you want to manage updates, etc yourself (rather than allowing the site admins
   to do it), look at using MainWP — it gives you a nice management console and 
   is free. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mainwp](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mainwp)
 *  Thread Starter [mfogarty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfogarty/)
 * (@mfogarty)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wp-installs-security-2/#post-11576096)
 * Thanks, Steven, I’ll have a look into that. If I could ask, would you recommend
   one database per WP instance rather than a shared Db with individual tables?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wp-installs-security-2/#post-11576102)
 * One database per WP instance. That’s how I set up my server. It’s helpful if 
   you’re careful about naming things, like using the site name for your config 
   files and database name. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mfogarty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfogarty/)
 * (@mfogarty)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wp-installs-security-2/#post-11576115)
 * Great, thanks so much for the advise!

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