Title: Database Update for MultiSite
Last modified: December 21, 2020

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# Database Update for MultiSite

 *  [l2tmedia909](https://wordpress.org/support/users/l2tmedia909/)
 * (@l2tmedia909)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-update-for-multisite/)
 * Hello,
 * Our agency runs a multi-site “L2TMediaBlogs.com” with hundreds of client blogs.
   I have received a notification that a database update is required. From this,
   has stemmed quite a few questions that I am hoping you are able to assist me 
   with.
 * 1) Do you have a recommended method or plug-in that is able to back-up our multi-
   sites before we upgrade the network? Our hosting provider gives us access to 
   database back-ups but not entire site back-ups. I am going to look into other
   options but before I do I am hoping to get recommendations from you.
 * 2) Would this update help speed our blog site load times? We are encountering
   slow loading times for each of the blogs. When we reached out to our hosting 
   provider we have received feedback that our content needs to be optimized. Do
   you have any other recommendations for that?
 * Thank you!
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/).
      Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a multisite question
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdatabase-update-for-multisite%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-update-for-multisite/#post-13820321)
 * If you’re talking about the database update for a multisite that shows up in 
   the admin panel then that will run during the first visit for the subsite that
   is requiring the update to be run if you don’t run it manually from the updates
   or admin pages.
 * It’s more a housekeeping update than any kind of performance type update so don’t
   expect that to help your site by running it manually from the notification. That
   is provided so you can do the update all at once while you can pay some attention
   to it and at a time you determine to run that else it’s triggered for each subsite
   if and when the subsite gets visited.
 * My best advice is to upgrade your webserver if you’re having performance issues…
   buy more horsepower!
 * You might find one of these two plugins might help…
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/)
 * If it was me, I’d run the first one as a tool for a brief period (maybe a day
   or two) then delete and switch to the second one permanently. People I trust 
   swear by that second plugin and I believe the first to be an excellent product
   also.
 * If you’re having minor slowdowns during high traffic periods, you might try a
   really good cache plugin like this one below and Cloudflare is good for about
   10% to as much as a 20% PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT if your server can keep pace 
   with Cloudflare.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-update-for-multisite/#post-13820321)
 * Status: not resolved

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