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Re: Dreamhost Shared Hosting Servers: No WordPress Mu

deuts — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:46:18 -0000

Hi Andrea, unfortunately I don't have the luxury to avail of a dedicated server or even a VPS for that matter. If you are resolved that I can't or should not install WPMU in a shared server, then I can't do anything about that.

It dawns to me now, WPMU is only for the elite. Even if you don't even intend to open registration to the public. Just for personal or a very limited group purposes.

Anyway, thanks for visiting my site. I'm glad for the help.

Re: Dreamhost Shared Hosting Servers: No WordPress Mu

Andrea_R — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:06:48 -0000

They said not on their *shared* servers. The dedicated ones they offer are just fine.

As we've said over and over again, you don't want to run WPMU on a shared server anyway.

Re: Dreamhost Shared Hosting Servers: No WordPress Mu

deuts — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:01:44 -0000

Thanks for the reply Jeremy. I understand the headache you are dealing with being in a webhosting business.

But you cannot generalize users in your box, right? I mean you can easily single out users that abuse and users that behave.

The users that don't guard their wp-mu sites well can be the same users that don't guard their blogs, forums, wikis, etc. that are also in your system from spammers. They can as well build any other website and take for granted and let the spammers grow into a spam land.

Re: Dreamhost Shared Hosting Servers: No WordPress Mu

JeremyK@DH — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:25:41 -0000

WP-MU causes HUGE problems on our servers. Also, most people set it up with promiscuous blog creation and spammers take them over creating hundreds of thousands of database tables causing havok for our database backups and the database server in general, not to mention polluting the internet with more cruft.

So, while you may think it sucks that we don't allow it, think about the problems it creates for us and for our users.