To scale or not to scale, that is the question…

  • wallawallawashington

    (@wallawallawashington)


    18 years, 3 months ago

    Can someone please tell me if a single installation of WordPress can operate multiple blogs, or does each blog require it’s own instance of WordPress? Does each blog require it’s own databse table?

    Also, can WordPress be load-balanced on multiple servers and can it scale on multiple servers?

    Thanks.

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  • skippy

    (@skippy)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    WordPress, as downloaded from wordpress.org, drives a single blog.

    Many blogs can live inside the same database, provided they all use a separate table_prefix as defined in wp-config.php.

    WordPress MU is a multi-user, multi-blog solution. It powers wordpress.com

    I’ve not been involved in any load-balancing, but I’m not aware of anything about WordPress that would prevent load-balancing.

    vaamyob

    (@vaamyob)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    If you want multiple blogs, I’d suggest mu.wordpress.org

    I highly doubt wordpress (out of the box) can be distributed across multiple servers.

    You may have to do something like dns/web load-balancing with multiple servers pointed to a super database server.

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