Title: Cloud Hosting for WordPress Multisite
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Cloud Hosting for WordPress Multisite

 *  [JanWest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janwest/)
 * (@janwest)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-hosting-for-wordpress-multisite/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I need your beautiful minds to help me find the right option on a host.
    I want
   to host it in South Africa, as that is where my clients would be, if it would
   make any kind of difference. ** Plan
 * I want to start a WordPress Multi-site, where I can host more that one site with
   different domains.
    I want to start a couple of blogs of my own, and Build a 
   couple demo sites for potential clients, and host them on my multi-site installation
   if they wish to do so.
 * **Questions**
 * Is cloud hosting the right option?
    Who do I host with? – At this moment Afrihost
   seems to be the best option, but their sales pages doesn’t give a lot of information.
   Managed or self managed? This question might be best left to the service provider
   but… How would I manage my clients’ domain specific email addresses?
 * Answer all, or answer some. All information and opinions are welcome.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-hosting-for-wordpress-multisite/#post-6838998)
 * Hi Jan!
 * Per the forum guidelines, any posting about specific hosting providers will get
   shut down. This is not the place for that. But some of the more general questions
   you ask about hosting multisite are entirely appropriate, since multisite often
   has some special requirements.
 * The domains question you are asking is solved by using a “domain mapping” plugin
   for multisite. There are a couple out there. This one is in the repository: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/)
 * You can read up on the details on that page, and I do believe there are other
   setup options, but I make use of this by using subdomain type multisite, with
   wildcard domains in my hosting account. The subsites are created as subdomains
   in my network first, then mapped to their “outside” domain. This mapping can 
   be turned on and off, by the way.
 * Which brings me back around to hosting: if you want to pursue this sort of setup,
   you would need to make sure that your hosting provider allows wildcard subdomains.
 * While I think there are some managed WP hosting solutions that allow multisite,
   I’m guessing that most people who are skilled enough to set up multiiste like
   to be a little more “hands on”, and do self-managed hosting for it.
 *  Thread Starter [JanWest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janwest/)
 * (@janwest)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-hosting-for-wordpress-multisite/#post-6839006)
 * Hi Bet,
 * Oops! I coppied my post from another forum and forgot to take out the hosting
   specific part.
 * Thank you for the rest of the info.
 *  [Amir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amirmyb/)
 * (@amirmyb)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-hosting-for-wordpress-multisite/#post-6839098)
 * Hi Janwest,
 * I would suggest you to chose USA for your hosting location instead of south africa
   as the local govt has certain content policy conflicts with DCs.
 * USA is more secure, cheap and advanced in terms of technology. Also you will 
   get a vast range of hosts to chose from.
 * **Cloud or not **–
 * I strongly recommend you to chose a Managed Cloud Provider as I am using it for
   my multisite wordpress blog. Believe me, it is just amazing with a cPanel on 
   it. The scaling option and the pay as you go model of Cloud is flattering.
 * Let me know if you have any questions about cloud hosting.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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