VPS / WP MU questions

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phil9922

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For the past few weeks I have been creating lots of Wordpress based websites, on a shared hosting account I've had through Hostgator for a while now. The sites are small and don't use up a ton of bandwith or anything, maybe 20 daily visitors per site. However, I am starting to pump these sites out quickly and I may have 100+ within the next month or so.

Right now I am using Hostgator's basic shared plan with individual WP installs for each site. I don't know much about WP MU and I have never used it. Since my goal now is to have 100s of these sites, I think WP MU would be a much better way to go than to keep using separate WP installs, correct?

With my basic Hostgator plan I don't really even come close to the limits of the account space or bandwith-wise. Just thinking into the future, I'm sure I'd outgrow this hosting plan if I continue to pump out sites at the rate I have been lately. Is a reseller account or VPS something I should be considering at this point or should I just wait until I need it?
 


With MU you can create a new blog in less than a minute and you can switch between accounts with a click or two.
 
vps is sweet - but you probably don't need it - you're not going to max out your bandwidth with wordpress blogs, but you might get banned for monopolizing resources w/ your blogs. You can install MU on a hostgator shared hosting account. Send in a request for wildcards and get ssh access. Easy. Multi-blog management is fairly easy from there too then.
 
only prob can be the access to xmlrpc.php on WP mu, if your autoposting posts. theres some info on Goog about how to sort it out. Had issue using other peoples MU installs though. In fact if anyone knows how to get around this for wp mu that u don't have root to?
 
WPMU usually is on subdomains... or folders. That ok or do you want differernt urls? I tihnk that can be done but is not easy or quick.

Plus the backend of WPMU kinda blows. Plugin compatibilty is a little shady. And one big database and if that gets corrupted...

But it is cool for social networks and giving free blogs to groups.
 
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