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Running several WordPress sites on same core / plugins?

Yes, it is possible. You can setup subdomains sites like this: subdomain1.domain.com, subdomains2.domain.com. Then, after you setup the network, use a domain mapping plugin to setup a domain name for each of them. subdomain1.domain.com becomes domain1.com, subdomain2.domain.com becomes domain2.com, etc. There are several domain mapping plugins out there: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/domain-mapping (the one I would recommend, but … Read more

Install and configure WordPress while old site is still active

While this might be not the easiest task for a beginner, it is very well possible – with a little help from some plugins. In a similar scenario I would usually install WordPress under a subdomain. When everything is looking ok to launch, I would recommend to first (always!) make a backup of everything. You can … Read more

Selling WordPress sites?

Please read through the following: http://codex.wordpress.org/License http://wordpress.org/about/license/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html You can’t can sell it as software or development, although and/or you can also charge for maintanance and install. Anyway, you should at least donate to the plugin developers, if you make money with their work somehow. EDIT I’m am sorry for my previous lines: I … Read more

How to move existing WordPress wp-content folder along with database to new server and new domain name?

There’s a pretty good step by step on moving WordPress in the Codex. It is what I follow when changing domains. Moving the files is pretty straight-forward. It is the hard-coded references in the database that are tricky. However, serialized search and replace will take care of all database changes. I’ve used the Velvet Blues … Read more

Hosting multiple WordPress sites on single server – best practices?

Based on your needs, yes: you should probably be using a Network (WordPress with MultiSite enabled). All network sites run the same version of WordPress Each network site can activate its own Plugins. You can explicitly allow each site to manage its own Plugins. Each network site can have access to different Themes (though you … Read more

Running WordPress on low-end hardware/resources?

I think it really breaks down to your traffic. The slower the hardware, the slower (the already slow) page generation. It’s not specific to WP, it’s the same for all large php scripts. If you get a server hit every now and then, as on a dev box or a family blog, it’s no big … Read more

How to: Update live sites theme from version control repo via plugin or library? [closed]

I use a script called git-ftp, which simply uses FTP to push changes from a git repo onto a server.

nginx or cherokee ( +php-fpm ) for WordPress backend?

From what I’ve seen on the market, Nginx and Cherokee are pretty interchangeable for what you’re doing. If you’ve already got things set up on Nginx … there’s no reason to switch to a different system. But if you want some benchmarks … I did a quick Google search and came up with these: http://blog.mudy.info/2009/02/nginx-vs-cherokee/ … Read more

Hosting WordPress on Google Apps Engine (GAE)

Really good question, I have not actually tested this out yet, however in the past, with the way Python and even Java work, they were able to really deliver superior performance because they able to split the application’s processing and memory needs across their cluster. This came with some limitations of not being able to … Read more

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