# Multisite vs multiple containers

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/multisite-vs-multiple-containers/175275
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 6, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multisite-vs-multiple-containers/175275 "2021-01-06T15:25:03Z")
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If all sites can use the same plugins and same SMTP config, then multisite is what you want.

If you diffeernt anything, then you’ll need a separate container for each site. Note: I’d have a single database container to handle all of the separate site web-only containers.

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