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2008-12-04, 01:14 AM | #1 |
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Fuck Wordpress
After 4 years, two hosts, countless hosting packages including dedicated servers and more hours on research than anyone should spend on trying to figure out how to keep the fucking script stable with a large well trafficked group of blogs, I fucking give up.
I'll figure out what to do to get my fucking server stable again and if that means dropping a couple large sites so be it. Then off to newbie land and building free sites and trying to make some fucking money once again! |
2008-12-04, 11:07 AM | #2 |
Ahhh ... sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?
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The free sites is more difficult to be indexed by google than blogs
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2008-12-04, 12:58 PM | #3 |
Internet! Is that thing still around?
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WOrdpress is by far the most search engine friendly application there is really. Google loves it.
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2008-12-04, 01:14 PM | #4 | ||
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A free site isn't anymore difficult to get indexed than any other page. It all depends on its construction and who is linking to it, just like anything else. Google doesn't care if you use WordPress or Joomla or static pages. Inbound links, content and on-site optimization are what matters. WordPress can be user-friendly and pretty, but if you use multiple plugins and SEO mods, you're putting a drag on the server.
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2008-12-04, 07:51 PM | #5 | |
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Hi Walrus,
Sorry to here things are not going well for you. Is it the script that is causing problems or just blogging per se? There are always other blogging tools like Moveable Type or Joomla. Personally, I've found that for the income I can generate that blogging was just not worth it. Maybe I am just not good at it. None-the-less, good luck. Quote:
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2008-12-04, 08:50 PM | #6 |
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Have you tried Blogs Organizer? I haven't tried it myself but there seem to be a lot of people that swear by it. I'm considering giving it a go someday here but I haven't had any issues with WP.
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2008-12-05, 01:38 AM | #7 |
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Having helped a number of wordpress powered sites, Walrus has reached a conclusion that a number of other people have reached.
The issue really isn't with BlogsOrganizer powering the network of sites, but, the fact that wordpress in a high traffic situation does not perform well. Their recent changes to their tables to hold revisions in the main table means that a site that has 1000 articles, each having a minor edit or two, results in a main post table with 3000+ records. Coupled with the fact that wordpress's indexes on that table are less than optimal for the types of queries, and the fact that the tag cloud is created with an utter mess of code, pushing a large amount of traffic through wordpress becomes problematic. wp-cache and wp-super-cache merely delay the inevitable. A large, high traffic network running on wordpress will melt down with enough traffic. Add in pings and trackbacks and google scanning those 500 posts on 60+ blogs on one machine and you've got 30000 pageviews from Googlebot every week or so. And while googlebot's network will only scan 1 page per domain per bot per minute, if you've got 60 blogs, its hitting wordpress 60 times a minute on top of your normal traffic. Wordpress was never designed with that type of activity. Neither was Joomla. MovableType writes static files which are infinitely better behaved. And yes, google likes the default wordpress templates, but, that doesn't mean that it is the best. Their default templates and many of the supplied templates do have coding errors and are not optimal, but, are not too bad. Walrus, I have another client with similar issues -- he's out of town right now, but, you might want to chat with him. He's about ready to write his own software or contract it out. Perhaps you can collaborate.
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2008-12-05, 05:28 AM | #8 |
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Walrus what number of wp blogs do You have!? is one table with multiple table prefixes or more tables!? Interested as to have a server with one to manny wp's but low in traffic for now.
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On the problematic server it's only 10. But my 4 oldest, most heavily trafficed blogs are on that server. |
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2008-12-05, 03:30 PM | #10 |
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Well that sucks
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2008-12-05, 03:50 PM | #11 |
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The MovableType suggestion seems interesting.
It would be interesting to see and hear just what the differences are between wordpress and movable type, in practice, for adult commercial blogging. Tho, the larger question about stable profitability hangs over the whole blogging endeavor. It's hard to imagine, if signups were solid, that stability couldn't be resolved. Last edited by Bill; 2008-12-05 at 03:53 PM.. |
2008-12-05, 03:56 PM | #12 |
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If WordPress would have remained a blogging engine rather than attempting to create a CMS that anyone could use for any purpose and have the ability to work with every possible plugin, it would have been better off. Small and stable, sort of like me, is better in the long run than big and versatile. I suppose you could grab an old release of WP and have a programmer integrate features that are needed and eliminate extra processes.
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2008-12-05, 03:59 PM | #13 | |
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In the long run, a port over to Drupal seems likely but in the near future I think I'll be focusing on other avenues than WP or blogging If memory serves and if ronnie is still running around he might be able to enlighten on Movable Type as I believe that was his initial script and then he moved to WP |
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2008-12-06, 01:15 AM | #14 |
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Give textpattern a go.
I forgot to say, its got a Wordpress import feature and oodles of plugins... you've just got to port your template across Last edited by dunc; 2008-12-06 at 01:24 AM.. |
2008-12-06, 08:09 AM | #15 |
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I never liked wordpress, that's why I went with http://www.b2evolution.net/
I run multidomain blogs on a couple of servers and it is very stable. If you need help, I can recommend you a coder for installs and mods. |
2008-12-06, 08:58 AM | #16 |
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This is coming at a time when I'm deciding on scripts for new projects. And between what I'm seeing here and have noticed myself, I'm interested in looking at alternatives to WordPress too.
I'd like to know more about MovableType too (I think Cleo uses or used to use it somewhere). And I'm taking another look at b2evolution now that I see it has tags and can run multiple blogs from one install. Mostly I'd like to know how those two perform with multiple blogs getting decent traffic on the same box.
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2008-12-06, 10:28 AM | #17 | |
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2008-12-11, 07:29 PM | #18 |
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I think it may be possible to get wordpress to publish static pages.
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2008-12-11, 07:38 PM | #19 |
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Yeah? How?
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2008-12-11, 08:45 PM | #20 |
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Well it will take reworking wordpress from the Admin area. More like a switch that will allow an admin to set how the blog should be accessed. I will look into this to know which way will work. I don't know if a plugin can do it. I will tell you which one I think might work when I take a look at the code.
You gotta remember, most of the actions that happen on a wordpress site are read actions. Unless you are getting a lot of comments from users. |
2008-12-11, 10:21 PM | #21 |
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Anybody got movabletype adult blogs?
I'm still curious about the movabletype option, or any blogging system that makes fixed html pages. |
2008-12-15, 05:15 PM | #22 |
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I've been studying this question ever since walrus brought it up.
But, curiously, I'm not finding a lot of people complaining about wordpress mucking up or fucking up their server. All I see is wordpress praise - this page posted over at the zoo about how wonderful wordpress is for operating high traffic magazine and video sites for example: http://www.wpzoom.com/plugins/wordpr...atform-part-1/ I was wondering if anybody here has any links to other people or pages talking about wordpress doing this, that is, crashing a server with a relatively low traffic porn blog? --- On another note, wow, movable type templates appear to suck. No wonder it lost market share. |
2008-12-15, 05:31 PM | #23 | |
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One of the comments on that post sums it up pretty well.
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2008-12-18, 05:18 PM | #24 |
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I'll throw down a big vote for looking at Drupal. I run a bunch of mainstream sites on it and it has fantastic capacity to run multiple sites on one installation. There are a lot of features for "throttling" content delivery and the caching system is very good. I'm only just recently re-doing an adult site or three with it so I'm still working out which modules/optimizations/etc. are best for this space, but my experience in the other side of the 'Net is pretty good.
It's a very good system, IMO. I'm not an expert on massively-trafficked sites, but there are many huge sites running on Drupal... The Onion, for instance. (I know that as UW says, high traffic news sites aren't running anything oob, but still, the system is built with stability & scalability in mind.) Two cents deposited. |
2008-12-18, 09:40 PM | #25 |
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Hmmmm, drupal's not bad, I've messed with it a bit.
I wonder if anyone's built any large adult sites with it? Anyone know? I have no idea wether drupal would be free of this apparent wordpress problem. It does have a reputation for stability. |
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