can i have more than one wordpress on a site?

[DennisJ]

Originally Posted by jayeff

The snag being if that database gets mangled, none of your blogs will work: something which would usually only happen with more widespread server/SQLserver issues.

you mean as if i lost the database? or does the sharing database create some conflicts on the blogs? or does sharing it mess up the whole database?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by DennisJ

you mean as if i lost the database? or does the sharing database create some conflicts on the blogs? or does sharing it mess up the whole database?

Damn, I forgot to use the nifty little multi-quote feature. Anyway he means that is something were to happen to the database itself it would affect all the blogs tied to that database.

Sharing the database does not create conflicts and sharing does not mess it up. His stance is that the more you access the database, the greater the chance of some type of corruption.

[jayeff]

Originally Posted by walrus

His stance is that the more you access the database, the greater the chance of some type of corruption.

That is a consideration, but my view had more to do with there being two things which cause SQL-based sites to fall over (apart from the same issues which affect any site): problems with the SQL server and database corruption. The former will bring down all your sites, whether or not they share databases. The latter (usually) only affects the site(s) using the damaged database.

Since it only takes a few seconds to give each site its own database, I prefer to do so. I'm still not clear why Walrus assumed I was implying anything about the wider aspects of maintenance etc., from that choice.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by jayeff

Since it only takes a few seconds to give each site its own database, I prefer to do so. I'm still not clear why Walrus assumed I was implying anything about the wider aspects of maintenance etc., from that choice.

Probably cause you caught me on a bad day when I was already in a pissy mood over something totally unrelated.

But thats only a guess, since I would never admit such things actually happened.

[Thumbler]

Originally Posted by walrus

Probably cause you caught me on a bad day when I was already in a pissy mood over something totally unrelated.

But thats only a guess, since I would never admit such things actually happened.

I thought it was because somebody had pissed in your Cheerios