Title: Multisite or Cache?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multisite or Cache?

 *  [pileofrogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pileofrogs/)
 * (@pileofrogs)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/)
 * Hi all. I’m a network admin at a community college. Users want WordPress and 
   I set up a multisite instance with php-fpm. I recently discovered that WP SuperCache&
   TotalCache & probably others don’t work in multisite. WP without caching is killing
   me. I’m about to give up on multisite and go back to giving each user a separate
   single-site instance with caching.
 * I’m probably missing something? Anyone know what? Is there a caching plugin that
   actually works with multisite? Some other way to make multisite more efficient
   than a bunch of caching single-site instances?
 * And I’m not interested in something that makes WP faster in general (like an 
   http accellerator, a separate static file server or a separate DB server). I 
   could apply that to my bunch of single-site instances, so it doesn’t give multisite
   an edge. If caching worked in multisite, then multisite would be faster.
 * Thank you. Sorry if my question sounds grumpy.
 * -Dylan

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 *  [Shane Gowland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thewebatom/)
 * (@thewebatom)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/#post-3180287)
 * WP-SuperCache works just fine within Multisite. Make sure you enable the domain
   mapping component (only if you’re mapping domains, of course) and replace SuperCache’s.
   htaccess rules with the Network specific rules.
 * The ‘quick-cache’ plugin also works quite well in a multisite environment.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/#post-3180295)
 * W3TC also works on Multisite. I don’t know who told you that caching didn’t work
   on Multisite, but they are entirely wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [pileofrogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pileofrogs/)
 * (@pileofrogs)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/#post-3180297)
 * Huh… Thanks! Further evidence that I am, in fact, an idiot.
 * Now I just need to track down those “Network specific rules”.
 * Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places? Googled “wordpress supercache multisite”
   and similar. Is there a site or a search that would lead me to these rules?
 * Thanks! You’ve already answered my main question, anything else is gravy.
 * -Dylan
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/#post-3180298)
 * It shoudl give you the right rules now, when you install.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-or-cache/#post-3180298)
 * Status: not resolved

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