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…and link to pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Hz3EahGQ

Okey thanks a lot. This networks+ -> https://wpebooks.com/networks/ ?

Thank you for taking interest in the matter. Also quite interesting to read other topic.

So I did a bit of testing yesterday (or maybe more like 7 hours ago ?? , so this morning…). Tried a plugin called Networks for WordPress. It worked pretty well, and I believe that it is faster than WordPress MU Domain Mapping (or wathever it is called). It also handles multiple networks, so it certanly does far more than domain mapping. I’ll try multiple network plugin as well later on.

My tests were run on a slightly different environment. Biggest difference is that it is smaller, a lot smaller actually. But it should still be representative for performance tests.
(We are in the middle of moving our servers etc etc, so right now our test-environment is very incomplete. Should be able to test on complete environment in a week or two.)

You only get one install to maintain, and that is of course pretty nice. But I’m still a bit concerned about upgrading all themes at once. Right now that would be about 12 themes, plus child themes, that has to be prepared before being able to upgrade.
Also, have to say that a lot of these themes are old dragons from the past with a lot of scary code…

Some information about our current traffic status:
Total number of active blogs*: 91
Unique browsers in aug 2011: 1 280 659
Page views in aug 2011: 11 577 520

August is not a high traffic period, and the reason for using one month instead of one week (which is more common I think?), is simply that I have this data on a paper on my desk ??
Google analytics is good, but as they choosed to split analytics accounts sometime very long ago, there are about 91 accounts to check ??

* There are “archived” inactive blogs, that is still visible if you have the proper url.

That sounds like a pretty useful plugin.

How does it affect performance?
Any thoughts about maintenance?

Okey thanks anyway. Nice to know that we aren’t the only ones scratching our heads…

Really don’t want to discuss wether or not to upgrade. We simply don’t have enough time for it right now. We will upgrade, beginning later this summer/early fall when most people at the magazines have their vacation.

Sorry if I sound a bit grumpy, but I’d rather not work 24/7 (literally) right now ??

Doesn’t really make sense since nothing has been done to the plugins (no activation or deactivation, no updating etc). Also, shouldn’t be to hard to grep for rewrite_rules, but nothing interesting was found.

How is this fixed in later versions? What is/was the issue about plugins flushing rewrite rules? As long as they use wordpress functions for it, they should be alright?

Couldn’t agree more about upgrading, but that is currently not an option. At the moment there is not enough time to make all necessary upgrades for each theme (some themes are unfortunately relying on removed functions etc).