[wp-edu] wp-edu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 3

Wed Jan 27 19:13:40 UTC 2016

You would probably need to do some custom scripting to back it up in
chunks, or at the worst, 1 table at a time.

I was at a presentation at WordCamp Philly last year where a staff member
from WPEngine was discussing large multisite installations and the issues
with table proliferation as your network grows. They had some interesting
hardware architecture solutions at WPEngine, but that would be beyond the
scope of most internally run WPMU platforms.

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BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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This caught my eye:

"enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to
dump the entire Wordpress database"

So how, in fact, was the database backed up?

Thanks,

Mike

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
      IT? (Ben Bakelaar)
   2. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
      IT? (Michael Barnard)
   3. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
      IT? (Jim Doran)
   4. Commons in a Box (Grogan, David)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:25:57 -0500
From: Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
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That?s awesome, thanks!

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Hi Ben,

There is an unofficial list that someone started over at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZmAqDjhkn-9GfkgiwK2lbQvuuMsCmmc6zNaZNVm_kI/edit#gid=0

that might help

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On Jan 27, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu> wrote:

I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number of
sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:36:01 -0500
From: Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu>
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We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off the
top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is fairly
substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
services are growing steadily.

I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an internally-hosted
Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on it
(enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to dump
the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do prune
old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a gigantic
mass of abandoned content.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu> wrote:

> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number of
> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
>
>
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> BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
> School of Communication and Information
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> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> p 848.932.8710
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:39:35 -0500
From: Jim Doran <jim.doran at gmail.com>
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC): http://sites.umbc.edu/

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu>
wrote:

> We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
> internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
> commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off the
> top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
> it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is fairly
> substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
> services are growing steadily.
>
> I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an internally-hosted
> Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on
> it (enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to
dump
> the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
> students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do prune
> old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a gigantic
> mass of abandoned content.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
>> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
>> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number
of
>> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
>> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
>> School of Communication and Information
>>
>> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>> p 848.932.8710
>>
>>
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:40:07 +0000
From: "Grogan, David" <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>
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Subject: [wp-edu] Commons in a Box
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Hello folks,

We are looking into standing up the WP based Commons in a Box (
http://commonsinabox.org/) from CUNY.

Has anyone else on this list done this? I'm particularly interested in how
people built critical mass in terms of faculty use. How did you get faculty
engaged with the site and then maintain their interest in using it?

Thanks,

David

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Educational Technology Services (ETS) Tufts Technology Services (TTS) Tufts
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