Hello. I need some input from anybody here who has experience running popular wp mu sites. I plan to setup a blog site for photography lovers. I was wondering about the best setup for this assuming the site will (hopefully) become popular and host hundreds of blogs :-) I have an account over at mediatemple.
1. Should I start with (gs) or (dv)? gs will save me money but I am concerned about getting downtimes or maxing out the GPUs.
2. I already have a (dv) rage server but I have some important clients hosted in there. What are the chances the wp mu will max out my server resources? I cant afford to have my other clients' websites going down.
3. I have an amazon s3 account. If I host the media uploads there, will it have a big impact on lowering server load? Going back to (gs), will this setup work: websites on (gs), remote multi-db on (dv) rage and media uploads on amazon s3?
4. Any other setup you recommend?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.