cyrijones

I just signed up for a Yahoo hosting account with Word Press mainly to test it out… trying to figure out if I should migrate a bunch of course blogs I have on Blogger (hosted by third party) to WordPress.

I like WordPress better but like app. service provider approach of Blogger better because my tech skills are very basic… having WordPress hosted with easy interface and what I thought would be reliability from Yahoo seemed like best of both worlds.

The main reason I stuck with Blogger was that it had a big company, Google behind it so thought (maybe naively) that their uptime would be good…

Thanks for your feedback re: Yahoo hosting… I have been trying to hear about people’s experience with using WordPress on Yahoo and having hard time finding much.

I think you can modify permlinks with the Yahoo hosting. Here’s what they let you do…

“By default WordPress uses web URIs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URI structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.

Common options:
Default
Date and name based
Numeric
Custom, specify below

I’m also finding it doesn’t take long to create multiple blogs and although I realize now from Moshu that they are really just single installations, it still is nice how you can access from one interface (blogs are listed conveniently below each other like how Blogger service lists multiple blogs). I just have to log into my account and then I can quickly access my different blogs.

Take care,
Cyri

Thanks to the above poster… that’s exactly the kind of detailed info I was looking for with deciding to go with Yahoo hosting. I was surprised that there weren’t more postings with the advantages and disadvantages of Yahoo hosting of Word Press… it looked like big news to me but wanted to make informed decision before using it.

Thanks for your responses Michael and Moshu. I will check out WordPress MU.

Thanks very much.

When I create a second blog from the admin interface in Yahoo hosting for Word Press, do you know if it re-installs the entire Word Press application or does it just add another database or table to the existing files set-up in the first installation.

If I create multiple blogs will it take a lot of memory by installing all the files or is this not an issue.

If there is no way to manage multiple blogs from single admin interface, is it possible to create multiple blogs and then adjust property settings of these blogs by programming or going into MySQL and running a SQL script?

I’m an instructor and wanted to create about one hundred blogs on different course topics. I know I could use categories but I would like to keep the topics completely separate.

It only takes a few minutes to set up one blog with Yahoo hosting / Word Press but it takes about a half hour to adjust the settings… wondering if there is any way around spending 30 min. x 100 instances to set-up. ??

Sorry for the long posting… I’m new with Word Press so hopefully my questions aren’t too dumb… I spent a few hours searching google, trying to talk with Yahoo and looking at the Word Press forums but can’t find an answer.

Thanks,
Cyri