Wordpress and Server load issues

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Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

I want to do lots of niche specific blogs which will, if i understand the way this works, require multiple installs of Wordpress.

I use virtual hosting, and was wondering how many Wordpress blogs I can run before I start to be a problem for my hosting company...?

btw, I also use a a couple of other scripts for managing blogs and and running a linklist (blogs automater and dragonlinks).

I have a virtual hosting plan with colo-cation and have no prob running phpadsnew on most of my stuff, a tgp script on one domain, BO and BA. I have BA set to crawl for new feeds once per day.
No sign of problems and I have 168 blogs getting updated randomly once a day with unique posts, Kaktus said aetting unique only posts in BA does put more strain on the server, I seem to be ok.
LD I want to give you a heads up this many blogs is a hell of a lot of work. I'm talking like 4 hours a day 7 days a week just keeping them looking pretty and it took me easily 300 hours getting it dialed in, (still tweaking). Think about this for a minute LD if you have 150 blogs and you want to make a change to each that takes two minutes your looking at a mind numbing five hour grind.