Title: which is best multisite model?
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# which is best multisite model?

 *  [prakharmonga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prakharmonga/)
 * (@prakharmonga)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-best-multisite-model/)
 * 1.This is first multisite model i am thinking of:
    Main domain on the root i.
   e. public_html subdomain wordpress install multisite activated. i will be having
   various subdomains with multisite installations.
 * can anybody tell me the exact directory structure and user database structure
   for this model.
    or am i thinking wrong model.
 * 2.This is the second multisite model i am testing on:
    main domain wordpress 
   install in a directory subdomain multisite installation in another directory.
   every subdomain will be installed in seprate directory every subdomain user database
   will be different

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 *  [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-best-multisite-model/#post-8149443)
 * There is no “best model” for multisite. It’s all up to you. Do you want DOMAIN.
   TLD/SUBFOLDER or SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD?
 * You needn’t worry about directory or database structure. WordPress will handle
   that.
 * Your second example isn’t multisite, it’s simply a bunch of individual WordPress
   installations 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [prakharmonga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prakharmonga/)
 * (@prakharmonga)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-best-multisite-model/#post-8149888)
 * could you please explain a bit more on the first example i have mentioned
    i 
   needed a good explaination from some experienced person its urgent i will be 
   thankfull to you if you can have some time for me to explain it i want to install
   multisite on SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD
 * is it possible to have SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site1,SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site2
   
   SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site3,SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site4 and so on….
 *  [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-best-multisite-model/#post-8149906)
 * Yes, it is possible to have what you mentioned, but that would be a sub**FOLDER**
   installation as opposed to a sub**DOMAIN** installation. Just because you are
   installing INTO a subdomain doesn’t make it a subdomain installation. WordPress
   would see SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD (all three parts) as the domain.
 * Subdomain installation would be these:
 * SITE1.DOMAIN.TLD
    SITE2.DOMAIN.TLD SITE3.DOMAIN.TLD SITE4.DOMAIN.TLD
 * Subfolder installation into a subdomain would look like:
 * SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site1
    SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site2 SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site3
   SUBDOMAIN.DOMAIN.TLD/site4

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