[wp-edu] wp-edu Digest, Vol 64, Issue 5

Thu May 28 12:44:39 UTC 2015

Darcy,
I am sorry to hear about this security nightmare.  For immediate assistance, http://www.johnoverall.com/wordpress-emergency-support/ .  For the long term, use one of the recommended hosting providers, or consider https://edublogs.org/ 

Nick 

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 16:30:29 -0400
From: Dan Bashaw <dan.bashaw at pathwisesolutions.com>
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Hi Darcy,

There could be a bright side -- There is nothing like a painful security failure to focus those that hold the purse strings on the benefits of managed hosting. This might be an opportunity to switch to one of the excellent managed hosting solutions that are now available for WordPress multi-site installations. Pagely.com and WPEngine.com are the most well know in this space in the US, and here in Canada I'm very partial to WPCloud.ca.

Using managed hosting very effectively offloads most security, backup and optimization issues onto the host. Since these are WP specialists with their reputations on the line they do a very good job of handling it.

It goes against the DIY ethic of a lot of higher education institutions, but it is a very effective way to get the job done.

Cheers,

Dan Bashaw
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Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 01:47:52 +0000
From: Benjamin Harwood <bharwood at skidmore.edu>
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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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