[buddypress-dev] Hosting - Slicehost.com

[Dan Milward]

We use slicehost.com and they have very good support.

They seem to be actively promoting best practices for running a big MU 
type of site - they even have tutorials on how to use nginx as a 
webserver as opposed to Apache.

Also its not just me using slicehost.com - here is a post from dougal 
who works on Wordpress:
http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/21/now-on-slicehost

Use the Debian install - do not use CentOS on slicehost.com because 
there are some seriously bad memory leaks happening. I could be wrong 
but I think wordpress.com uses Debian - and we figure it is best to do 
what they do - don't fix what isnt broke huh?

And with slicehost.com you can start small like us and increase your 
account size as you need to.

This is what I would do (learned from hours of pain):
- setup a debain slice at slicehost.com
- install MU
- off load your themes to amazon S3
- explore using nginx as a webserver

Using Amazon S3 to host your themes is a very very good idea. It will 
mean your slicehost account can stay smaller for longer. This is because 
S3 is doing a lot of the hard work with images. This is what 
wordpress.com does and this is what started to do on getshopped.com ever 
since we realised it meant we could save money and improve the user 
experience at the same time.

Don't think big. Think smart :))

The plugin you want for S3 is this one:
http://www.ringofblogs.com/2008/04/12/off-loading-wpmu-theme-files-to-amazon-s3/


Ciao,

Dan


Andrea wrote:
> Just some friendly advice - if the site is going to have a large 
> number of users, you'll need to go with a VPS. I use futurehosting.biz.
>
> For very small installs, you can get away with shared hosting for a 
> time, but MU usually winds up being a little more memory intensive 
> when you get up over a couple hundred users.
>
> Andrea
> http://wpmututorials.com
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