[wp-edu] About to give up

[Benjamin Harwood]

Hello, Darcy. While there may be benefits to having faculty, staff and students establish and manage a professional web presence via a single WP instance and self-branded domain, many IT dwellers like myself still find that the strength and voice of an online campus community grows, especially for digital newbies distraught with Google and Facebook, en masse with a well honed multisite instance. Still, keeping a vigilant eye on rogue themes and plugins is an ongoing challenge.  If self hosting is causing growing pains that stunt your outreach and service to others, I have to say that Reclaim Hosting does a fabulous job by and for academic ' edtech ' people minding the concerns you raise at a super reasonable cost to end users while on campus.. and after graduation.

Good luck on your migration.

In peace,
Ben



On May 26, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Darcy Greene <greened at msu.edu<mailto:greened at msu.edu>> wrote:

Hi fellow Wordpress multisite users

We have been using Wordpress multisite with our School of Journalism class sites for the past five years. It seems that we have finally lost the battle with plugins and updates. Security is breached, unexplained traffic is taking down the servers and nothing is reliable. The competent people who did the original install are long gone.

Have any of you faced similar problems with an old WPMS network? Do you have an outside host that keeps things running smoothly? Have you changed to a new system?

Thanks for your feedback.

Best,

Darcy












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