Wordpress and Server load issues

[T Pat]

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.

[LD]

Originally Posted by T Pat

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.

Good to know I've got a ways to go on overloading the server..I'm considering moving to Colo-cation btw.

I do seem to have more ideas than time these days. I doubt it I could do hundreds right now, but I would like to get a few up and running...maybe 5 or 10 or so. One of these days I hope to be able to do this full time...

[walrus]

I ran into server load issues with XXX Blog Maniac but I blame myself. I've got much more going on with that blog than most bloggers would ever dream of, feeds in my sidebar, feeds on pages, dynamic shit every where you turn. Many of my categories have different templates. Pages have different templates. It's my conglomeration of trial and error.

But back when I was at 2k uniques a day my host informed me I needed my own server....

[AcidMaX]

Originally Posted by T Pat

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.

This is where working smarter and not harder would come in to play. If you have that many blogs it almost seems like it would be easier to just have someone code up something and based on niches would add to a specific subset of sites etc. It would definitely cut your time down drastically.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by AcidMaX

This is where working smarter and not harder would come in to play. If you have that many blogs it almost seems like it would be easier to just have someone code up something and based on niches would add to a specific subset of sites etc. It would definitely cut your time down drastically.

Two things I've never been accused of are being lazy and working smart
I'm to stupid to code myself, I've hired three different coders in the time I've been in adult, the first one fucked me and vanished, Then Kaktus came along and I used him for a bunch of custom work until he stopped taking coding jobs. Gave another coder a shot last year he got $350 did a half ass job like a month behind schedule then dropped off the face of the earth.

I'm using Blogs Automator, Blogs Organizer and as soon as I catch my breath will also start using Gallery Scrapper.
With the next upgrade of BO and BA my work load will be cut in probable a third
The thing is I'm probable the first person using a combination of BO and BA that just jumped in, strapped up and put the pedal to the floor, expecting to spit out high quality splogs at lightning speed. Now Kaktus knows where improvements are needed