Everyone talks about the convenience of WordPress multisite. One dashboard, one codebase, and centralized management. So what could go wrong?
Honestly? A lot.
One plugin update can trigger downtime across the entire network.
A problematic sub-site can cascade into outages everywhere.
Debugging is a complete nightmare.
Was it the theme, the plugin, or a misconfigured sub-site?
Clients don’t care about your reasons. All they see is that their site is down.
The convenience turns out to multiply risk. And when that downtime hits, it’s not “just one site”. Almost everybody is affected.
I’ve seen agencies choose WordPress with good intentions, only to spend nights firefighting incidents that a single-site setup would have contained.
So, is multisite worth the trade-offs in 2025? Or is it just outdated now that we have better ways to scale?
Curious to hear how others here are handling this.
(We’ve been building tools around WordPress monitoring and management because this pain just keeps coming up. If anyone’s curious, happy to share more.)
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