A couple of days ago I asked for advice about using WPMU on shared hosting.
I have contacted and chatted with several hosting services and found several that will let me install WPMU as long as I stick to my promise that it will be used only for my family's multilingual blogs. One host was very clear that they will allow me to do it, but that I will have to look for help on how to do from the wise people in these fora.
However, one hosting company told me one thing that left me puzzled. The technical person (I was forwarded to him by sales) said that my account would be put through stress by WPMU. At that point I though I had no choice but to do more than 10 individual installations of regular WP, but the technical guy said that so many blogs (each language version counts as one) would also put my account under a lot of stress.
According to this person, unlimited bandwidth and space are subject to factors like CPU load, etc. (things which have been amply expalained in these fora). Because of the preceding and because shared hosting involves other customers, your pages can only have 10-20 concurrent visitors at any one time.
Is that true or was he just trying to upsell me to a more expensive package?
On a side note, can I bother people with a request for advice on a good host for WPMU? I will not be handing out accounts. It will only be my family blogging. Because of multilingualism, we will have 12 blogs.
Your help will be most appreciated.
NT