Multi-Site Website Development Agency
Multi-Site Website Development Agency
Enterprise Umbraco specialists | Multi-brand platforms | Built to scale
Multiple websites. One platform. Complete control.
As organisations and enterprises expand, managing multiple websites can quickly become time-consuming, resource heavy, and expensive. You might have separate brands, regional or international sites, acquisitions, divisions, or franchise locations, each with its own audience, messaging, and identity.
When these websites are managed separately, the same challenges appear again and again: duplicated work, inconsistent branding, repeated updates, and higher maintenance costs. Keeping information accurate across the group can be a time-consuming task for central and local teams.
An Umbraco multi-site solution brings your websites together under one unified platform. Each site can maintain its own identity, content, and autonomy, while the wider group benefits from shared functionality, streamlined updates, and a more efficient way to scale.
A selection of our Phenna Group websites
Is a multi-site platform right for your organisation?
If any of the following sound familiar, a multi-site solution from our agency in Sheffield could make your multiple site management much simpler.
- Your organisation or enterprise manages multiple brands or business websites
- You've recently acquired businesses and every website is built differently
- You're expanding into new regions, countries, or languages
- Different teams need to manage their own websites without affecting others
- You want to share content, templates, or media across multiple websites
- Updating functionality across every website is becoming time-consuming
- You need greater consistency across branding, governance, and user experience
- Maintaining separate websites is increasing development and support costs
Key features of our Umbraco multi-site solution
Our multi-site architecture helps reduce the time, cost, and complexity of managing multiple websites. Shared features, content, and technical updates mean changes can be made once and applied everywhere, removing the need to repeat the same work for each site as your group evolves.
Easy Content Management
Editors can update pages, publish news, manage media, and maintain their own websites without technical expertise. Central administrators retain full visibility and control across the wider estate.
Shared Templates, Unique Branding
One library of page templates and components powers every website. Each brand automatically applies its own styling, colours, logos, and fonts while benefiting from the same powerful technical foundations.
Shared Content Across Sites
Create functionality and content once and publish it wherever it’s needed. Group-wide policies, messaging, services, accreditations and more can be shared across sites to minimise duplication and ensure consistency.
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Central Media Library
A shared media library keeps logos, imagery, videos and other assets organised and up to date in one place, while still allowing individual brands to access and manage their own dedicated resources.
Secure User Permissions
Granular permissions ensure that teams can only access the websites, content, and features relevant to them, while central administrators maintain oversight across the whole multi-site architecture.
Fast Brand Launches
Launching a new business, acquisition, division, or regional website becomes a simple configuration task rather than a full website project, significantly reducing cost and deployment times.
Looking for a smarter way to manage multiple websites?
Talk to our Umbraco multi-site web developers today.
Enterprise-grade hosting and security
Typically hosted on Microsoft Azure, our Umbraco multi-site solution is designed for performance, security, and long-term scalability.
Enterprise-grade UK cloud hosting
Secure, scalable, and carbon-neutral cloud hosting, aligned with UK data residency requirements and GDPR best practice, to provide a reliable foundation for group websites.
Fast global content delivery
Pages and assets can be cached across Microsoft’s global edge network via Azure Front Door, improving load times and reducing pressure on the origin server.
Security layers built in
Security features including HTTPS, SSL/TLS certificate management, DDoS protection and bot mitigation, Web Application Firewall, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Reliable infrastructure and backups
High availability, traffic management, failover options, and automated backups with point-in-time recovery, reducing disruption and helping teams recover quickly if issues occur.
Designed to handle demand
The platform automatically scales to absorb traffic spikes across all websites, including campaigns, news announcements, and peak recruitment periods.
Virtually unlimited media storage
Azure Blob Storage provides extensive, reliable storage for images, documents, video and other website assets, which can scale without affecting application or server performance.
Microsoft Azure SLA-backed uptime
Multi-site hosting infrastructure designed to support business-critical websites, backed by Microsoft Azure’s 99.9% uptime SLA.
Why choose an Umbraco multi-site platform?
- Manage multiple sites from one CMS
- Maintain consistent branding, UX, and quality
- Launch new brands and acquisitions quickly
- Reduce duplicated content and administration
- Control permissions across the entire group
- Scale efficiently without building sites from scratch
Multi-language ready. 24/7 enterprise-grade hosting. Built to grow with you.
Need a smaller site or campaign page?
Explore our in-house, template-based framework, FWD Flex.
Ready to consolidate your fragmented websites?
Talk to Lee about our custom web development services today.
50+ brand websites. One unified platform.
We’re already supporting global organisations like Phenna Group, enabling multiple businesses to operate independently while benefiting from shared infrastructure, central governance, and scalable digital foundations.
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Start with a free website audit for a clear picture of where you are now and where to go next. Get in touch with Lee about our bespoke web design and development services today!
FAQs about multi-site management
What is a multi-site website?
A multi-site website is a collection of individual websites managed through a single content management system (CMS), like Umbraco. Each website can have its own domain, branding, content, and users while sharing the same technical platform. This makes it much easier for organisations and enterprises with multiple brands, divisions, regions, or acquisitions to manage their digital presence efficiently.
Who can benefit from a multi-site website?
Groups that regularly acquire businesses, multi-brand organisations, franchises, and enterprises operating across different regions or countries can all benefit from a multi-site platform. Multi-site website development for franchises and group companies can provide consistent templates, functionality, and messaging while allowing individual businesses to manage their own local content.
What is a multi-site CMS, and can it help us consolidate multiple websites?
A multi-site CMS allows multiple websites to be managed from one central platform rather than maintaining separate systems for every site. At FWD Motion, we build Umbraco multi-site solutions that give organisations and enterprises central oversight while allowing individual teams to manage their own websites independently.
What's the difference between a multi-site website and a multi-language website?
A multi-site website manages multiple separate websites from one platform, while a multi-lingual website allows visitors to view the same website in different languages. The two often work together. For example, a global enterprise might have separate multi-regional websites for the UK, Europe, and North America, with each regional website offering content in multiple languages to serve local audiences.
Is Umbraco a good CMS for multi-site development?
Yes. Umbraco is particularly well suited to multi-site architecture because it allows multiple websites to share templates, functionality, content, and media while giving each website its own branding and editorial control. It can also scale as enterprises grow and acquire additional businesses.
Can every website have its own branding?
Absolutely. Although websites share the same underlying platform, each one can have its own logo, colours, typography, imagery, navigation, content, and domain name. This allows every brand to maintain its own identity while benefiting from shared technology behind the scenes.
Can content be shared across multiple websites?
Yes. Shared content is one of the biggest advantages of a multi-site platform. Information such as policies, accreditations, services, case studies, news, or company information can be created once and reused wherever it's needed, helping maintain consistency and reducing duplicated work.
Can different teams manage different websites?
Yes. User permissions can be tailored so teams only have access to the websites and content they're responsible for, while central administrators retain oversight across the wider platform. This gives local teams the flexibility to manage their own content without affecting other websites.
Can you add new websites as our organisation grows?
Yes. Whether you're launching a new global brand website, creating a regional website, or integrating a recent acquisition, additional sites can be added to your existing platform without starting from scratch.
We acquire businesses regularly; can new acquisitions be added without rebuilding everything?
Yes. Rather than commissioning a completely separate website for every acquisition, new businesses can often be added to the existing platform using shared templates and functionality while maintaining their own branding, content, and domain. This makes onboarding acquisitions faster, more consistent, and far more cost-effective over the long term.
Can you migrate our existing websites into a multi-site platform?
Yes. We can usually migrate existing websites from Umbraco or other content management systems (CMS) into a single multi-site CMS, preserving important content and functionality wherever appropriate while creating a more efficient platform for future growth.
Can a multi-site platform support international businesses?
Absolutely. Multi-site platforms are ideal for organisations operating across multiple countries or regions. Combined with multi-lingual website functionality, a multi-location website design allows you to deliver localised content while maintaining consistent governance, branding, and technical standards across your entire digital estate.
Will moving to a multi-site platform reduce maintenance costs?
In many cases, yes. Instead of maintaining multiple independent websites, updates, new functionality, security improvements, and ongoing development can often be completed once and applied across the wider platform. This reduces duplicated work, simplifies website management, and can significantly improve long-term cost efficiency.
Can you integrate our existing business systems?
Yes. We regularly integrate Umbraco websites with CRM systems, ERP platforms, HR software, marketing platforms, authentication systems, and other third-party applications. We'll design integrations around the way your organisation already works.
Is a multi-site platform secure?
Yes. We host our multi-site solutions on secure, enterprise-grade Microsoft Azure infrastructure with features including HTTPS, SSL certificates, automated backups, monitoring, and resilient cloud hosting. By managing websites from a single platform, software updates and security improvements can also be rolled out more efficiently across the wider estate.
We’re a global hotel group; can you help consolidate our fragmented websites?
Yes. If your hotels are currently managed across separate websites or platforms, we can help bring them together into a more efficient multi-site structure. Each hotel can retain its own branding, content, and local information while sharing templates, functionality, media, and centrally managed content where appropriate. This makes it easier to manage multiple hotel websites, maintain consistency across the group, and add new locations as your portfolio grows.
Can you support our platform after launch?
Of course! Once your platform is live, we can continue supporting it with secure hosting, monitoring, software updates, ongoing maintenance, technical support, content updates, user training, and future development as your organisation continues to grow.
What is WordPress Multisite, and how does it work?
WordPress Multisite is a feature that allows businesses to manage multiple WordPress sites from a single WordPress installation and dashboard. Each site can have its own content and settings while sharing the wider WordPress platform. Like Umbraco, it’s one approach to managing multiple sites, and if you're considering WordPress multi-site development, we're happy to discuss your requirements and the options available to you.
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