{"id":38,"date":"2026-07-30T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/2026\/07\/30\/meridian-studio-runs-60-client-sites-from-one-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:26:28","slug":"meridian-studio-runs-60-client-sites-from-one-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/2026\/07\/30\/meridian-studio-runs-60-client-sites-from-one-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Studio runs 60 client sites from one panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Meridian is an eight-person design studio. They had client sites spread across five hosts, inherited one project at a time, and no consistent way to give a client access to their own site.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">The problem<\/h3><p>Every site had a different control panel, a different backup story and a different person who knew the password. Onboarding a new developer took a week, and offboarding one was a scramble to work out what they had access to.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">The change<\/h3><p>All sixty sites moved onto two Scale plans over three weekends, with our team handling the migrations. Team accounts replaced shared logins, scoped per site rather than per account.<\/p><ul class=\"iconlist iconlist-color ms-0\"><li>Five hosting accounts consolidated into two<\/li><li>Per-site permissions for eight staff and forty clients<\/li><li>One audit log across every property<\/li><li>Staging on every site, not just the big ones<\/li><\/ul><h3 class=\"ls-0\">The unexpected benefit<\/h3><p>Clients who could safely be given read-only access stopped emailing to ask whether the site was up. Support volume into the studio dropped by about a third.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">In their words<\/h3><p>&quot;The audit log settled an argument about who changed a DNS record in about nine seconds. That alone paid for the year.&quot;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five hosting accounts, no consistent backups and shared passwords. Consolidating to two plans cut the studio&#8217;s own support load by a third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","tag-agency","tag-customer-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}