[wp-hackers] Running several WordPress sites on the same server

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That's a fair point. My main concerns were disc space which is cheap anyway
and upgrades. Shouldn't be too hard to write a script to go though all the
sites automatically and prompt the built in updater to run.
On Aug 22, 2012 4:05 PM, "Brian Layman" <wp-hackers at thecodecave.com> wrote:

> > I am looking to run several WordPress sites on a server. I'm talking like
> > 100+. [...]
> > How would this compare to more of a shared hosting type setup with vhosts
> > and a full copy of the wp source for each site. Any downside to my method
> > or other considerations I should be aware of?
>
> It's certainly doable, though I'd put the logic in the config file rather
> than hitting the DB right away. You'll be fighting occasional plugins that
> have wp-content/plugins hard coded and so you'll have to look at each
> plugin you add.  For only 100 or so on one server, I'd still just consider
> unique installs. The file system is not over burdened and the sites are
> kept independent with no chance of one site's hack affecting another site.
> So I'd just keep it simple.
>
> However, if you want to try something funky just to keep your install
> fresh.  You could always just create softlinks to the WP core
> subdirectories.  Then you aren't running any custom code and you're
> limiting your unique file list.  Updates will still have to update the web
> root for your 100 directories, but that's what scripts are for and you have
> no core hacks this way.
>
> Brian Layman
>
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