mfioretti

Hi Silkalns, and thanks for your comment!

I knew that there would be much less maintenance to do, but knowing that there is no performance benefit in going multisite, this is unexpected: Didn’t notice any performance changes whatsoever.

This for me is interesting and useful news.

Thanks

Hi Bemdesign

Yes, of course the upload server “needs to be on the same server as all the sites using it”. In fact, I explicitly wrote “same server” myself. That is not in doubt.

The question is, considering as example only 3 independent installations of wordpress on the SAME server, all installed under /var/www/html, each connected to a DIFFERENT domain name (*):

/var/www/html/blog-1/ (domain: example.com)
/var/www/html/blog-2/ (domain: another.example.com)
/var/www/html/blog-3/ (domain: example.com/anotherblog)

can I set the UPLOADS variable in ALL those 3 blogs to “../blog-uploads”

that is make all blogs use as media library the same server folder “/var/www/html/blog-uploads”???

I do NOT mind if the users of one blog see ALL the files uploaded by the users of the other blogs! Some of those users are the same person, in practice, and many of those files would be the same anyway.

I only wonder a) if this would work with a relative path that goes outside the root folder of each single blog and b) if this would cause problems like database corruption, caching on each blog not working correctly, etc..

Point a) I can test myself very easily, but is useless to do if it creates problem b) later, that is why I am asking

(*) but again, please see the original post at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/best-server-andor-cache-setup-for-performance-of-multiple-related-blogs for more details! and possibly give advice there too, thanks!

sorry chrdesigner but…

I have the same problems as the other people who already posted: WHAT does it mean

“You need only made a update in your “.htaccess” “

WHAT UPDATE? What exactly should one write/change in the .htaccess? Sorry but, as is, that sentence is useless.

Thanks,
Marco

Andrea_r,

you’re absolutely right that I’m overthinking ?? I appreciate your patience. Things looks clearer now, time to try.

Thanks again,
Marco

Andrea_r,

thanks for the answer. However, I am not sure I explained my setup completely.

As I said in my original post, this is a VPS of which I have the root password, so in a sense I am my own host and have full access to httpd.conf and everything else on the system.

The problem (if it is a problem, that’s where I get confused) is this:

the ONE apache server on that vps currently serves several independent domains:

zona-m.net
domain1.net
domain2.com
…

As far as I can see now, I have to set up in the next months at least 4, max 7 blogs with WordPress, and they should all be subdomains of zona-m.net

No matter how I do the above, however, I can’t mess with the ONE httpd.conf in the VPS that may disturb the other domains (which are and will continue to be on Drupal, and have httpd settings/directives in the common httpd.conf that their responsibles decided, not me)

Therefore, what I’m trying to be sure about is:

1) since I must use subdomains anyway, not subfolders: will implementing them with blog networks require changes to httpd.conf that may mess with the other domains? Probably no, AFAICT, but of course confirmation is welcome

2) the overall performance difference/ram consumption etc… of 4/7 single installs vs one multisite/blog network install, as already explained. But if you say that in this scenario the performance difference is negligible, probably it’s much less complicated for me to just go for independent install without messing with Apache more than absolutely necessary.

Thanks

Update: I just discovered that development of ZdMultiLang is officially stopped, and that very likely I can’t change my httpd.conf to support blog networks, that is handling more blogs with one single wordpress 3 install. So almost the only part of my initial question remains:

Are performance very different when I run 4 blogs with 4 independent wordpress installs instead of doing one blog network?

THanks,
Marco