Wordpress and Server load issues

[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....