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Is there a limit to the number of MSM sites you can run from a single install? Is there a recommended limit? I quickly searched the forum but couldn’t find any recommendations.

Thanks in advance.

Licensing issues aside, we recommend the number of sites not to exceed 70+ sites. This is not a hard limit, but it all becomes a bit unwieldy after that. How many sites are you interested in running?

We don’t have a hard number. We have 19 sites now and I could see us adding another dozen over the next year. I don’t think we’re in danger of hitting that 70 site limit.

Yes, you should be good to go there 😊

We don’t have a hard number. We have 19 sites now and I could see us adding another dozen over the next year. I don’t think we’re in danger of hitting that 70 site limit.

You have 19 sites on EE MSM now, or planning, too?

..we recommend the number of sites not to exceed 70+ sites. This is not a hard limit, but it all becomes a bit unwieldy after that.

Ingmar’s right, except that it can get a bit unwieldy before 70 sites. That’s just a lot of complexity in one control panel. I have one set up with half a dozen sites on a single EE install and it works fine—except all those weblogs, member groups, template_groups, and templates can get complicated.

Yikes! I would hate to have that many sites go down at the same time if something went wrong.

I think the more important limitation to consider is that of mysql.

See this thread here.

That was changed considerably in a recent update and had more to do with the number of custom fields, not the number of Sites.