WordPress MU

Hiya All,

Phew - I'm just about to head off to the sack but before I go I've got something pretty cool to share.

Edublogs Premium - http://edublogs.org/services

Any user signing up gets a configured WPMU install all to themselves... it's not *true* WPMU-MU but I'm pretty happy with it as I can now offer free blogs AND (non-free) multi-user blogging platforms through an automated system.

Here's where I'm coming from in a bit more detail: http://incsub.org/blog/2007/introducing-edublogs-premium

It's taken a long time and I would never have been able to manage it without the help of all you good people - can't tell you how grateful I am.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers, James

Congrats :)

Coolness. :)

Very cool James. I'll drink to that. :D

Been looking at something similar myself, just haven't had the time to "get 'er done" yet. :-\

Farms3, if you see this, you have one of your clients asking for help over in wp.org land.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/104538

Just an FYI.
-drmike

Thanx drmike... I'm Farms, Farms2 or Farms3 depending on my state of login :)

Cheers, James

I'm not sure but I'll ask, how does this differ from a separate MU install for each premium account ?

double post sorry

That's pretty much all it is - but they're very configured, come with great plugins and an automated set-up process - as well as upgrades, support etc. etc. It's basically WPMU hosting on steroids - specifically for education.

Hey farms, you don't happen to have a development blog running do you?

I'd be very interested in learning how others develop their individual setup.

Nice job, and congrats!

Stewie:

I run a local copy, and use the same domain name with the tld set to .loc instead of .com or .net. I set up a vhost for it, and then add in a couple test subdomains as well.

Then I play and tweak and whatever until I'm somewhat satisfied. 100% satisfied is a thing of myth, to me, but that's probably just my nature.

Hey I just checked out edublogs and I was highly impressed. No wonder theres so many users.

Thanx :) We've got over 75K across the sites now...

James, do you mind sharing your deployment details?

How many servers?

Are you doing anything special to split your DB server up, or just running on a single instance of MySQL?

How many web servers?
What's the spec of them?
How many hits are you getting a day?

No worries... two at the mo - both P4 duals RAM'd up as far as possible (4 gig on both I think).

Edublogs.org is currently running over 43K blogs and that's had a dbase split from a professional (much needed), the others have needed signup fixes but learnerblogs (24k+) needs a dbase split soon too.

Will get some hits details sometime soon - as I allow my users to use Analytics it limits my capacity to grab stats except off the server, and I have those stats turned off for better performance.

I'm looking forward to two years (in August) and cracking 100K... not sure which'll come first but I'll do a complete rundown then.

BTW, that's just the free blogs.