several possibilities.
Bill, Jim Groom (bavatuesdays) is actually the person who helped me
set up the initial program, essentially giving me his set-up from UMW.
He is a master!
I find that teaching full time gives me little time to figure this all
out, so I do need to pay for support. Thanks again,
Susan
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:56 PM, William Stites wrote:
> Another option for hosting is to do it yourself.
>
> We recently migrated a number of single WordPress sites into a
> WordPress MU install that we host internally (single installs were
> internally hosted to). I am not someone who is extremely familiar
> with MySQL and PHP, but here were a number of excellent site out
> there, including the WordPress MU site that walked me through the
> process.
>
> By self hosting you have you own box you have the ability to control
> the environment. The one issue is support, however in most of these
> one-click installs and host solution you either have not help, web
> based help or have to pay for support.
>
> I have found that through posting the right question(s) toTwitter,
> using a hashtag (#wpmu), following the right people (andrea_r &
> wpmuguru are great), using the WordPress site(s), yeilds great
> results. There are a few good web site to look at to:
>
> http://ronandandrea.com/
> http://wpmututorials.com/
> http://bavatuesdays.com/
> http://dev.wpmued.org/
>
> If you have any questions about how we did it and what we're going
> feel free to contact me.
>
> Bill
>
>
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> On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> Hello, Susan,
>>
>> While I don't have much good to say about Bluehost, you will likely
>> have similar issues with *any* shared host.
>>
>> Most shared hosts oversell their accounts, so that your site could
>> be one of hundreds vying for limited server resources. If another
>> site on your server (or in the case of cloud computing, pulling
>> from the same pool of allocated server resources) gets busy, your
>> site will slow down. This can be expecially painful on database
>> driven sites, where multiple sites can be using the same database
>> server.
>>
>> At some point, you should consider moving up to a Virtual Private
>> Server (VPS), or some type of dedicated server (a box dedicated to
>> only your sites). These are more expensive, but generally come with
>> better customer support. However, saving money on hosting doesn't
>> add up to much savings if people are put off by bad performance.
>>
>> We use Slicehost for some of our development infrastructure. A
>> client of ours recently went with http://www.inetu.net/ -- one of
>> their concerns was a hosting company that did not host any hate
>> sites, and INetU met that need. We will likely be switching to them
>> ourselves in early 2010.
>>
>> I can also recommend staying away from Westhost -- We have hosted
>> sites with them for the last 3 years, but their quality has
>> deteriorated over the last 5-6 months.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Susan Carter Morgan <susancartermorgan@GMAIL.COM>
>> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>> Sent: Sun, November 29, 2009 4:43:02 PM
>> Subject: Wordpress help
>>
>> We are managing our wpmu blogs on a shared server (bluehost) and
>> experiencing many page load delays. Can anyone recommend a good
>> host, one
>> that provides cPanel access w/ some management? I do not have
>> experience
>> with php.
>> Thanks
>> Susan
>>
>> Susan Carter Morgan
>> Instructional Technology Coordinator
>> English 8
>> Fredericksburg Academy
>> Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
>> 540-898-0020
>> http://fredericksburgacademy.org
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