Hey, i had another few questions about installing multiple blogs, can you please take some minutes to answer them, as i dont want to make mistakes, and want to sort out some confusion. My situation/strategy im planning... I was going to install 9-10 WP blogs on my 1 domain, using 9-10 Databases, but read some answers, (including yours) in my forum posts about many plugins can slow down a blog.... (My domain hosting allows up to 12 databases, so no issues there - as i would use one database per blog) But can Many blogs (8-10) hosted on 1 domain slow down the actual blogs? are they getting energy from the 1 domain/1 hosting account? It would be something like this (My domain)../Blog1 (My domain)../Blog2 (My domain)../Blog3 (My domain)../Blog4 (My domain)../Blog5 (My domain)../Blog6 (My domain)../Blog7 (My domain)../Blog8 (My domain)../Blog9 (My domain)../Blog10 Questions- a) Can this method of hosting 10 blogs on 1 domain 'slow down' each blog? in the fact that they are all getting their power from 1 hosting account, so more on the account will slow each one down? or doesn’t it work like that, so they should be fine? I plan to have just a Few plugins -4-5 on each one. b) have you done this method before? installed many blogs on 1 domain? c) What is the maximum amount of blogs that you have hosted/installed on 1 single domain? d) Was it successful ? or did it slow the whole site down? e) How many would you advise me to install maximum? or is 9-10 ok? even 12? f) Does the fact that 10 blogs are on 10 separate databases (1 database per blog) mean that each one SHOULD NOT get slowed down? - from a technical programming-hosting point of view? g) or should i just test it, and see how it goes? or it isnt worth as all 10 blogs would get really slow? h) would the 10 blogs be pulling power from the 1 domain, even though they are on 10 separate databases? or they will run as fast as each other as a database separates ten blogs? Can you please have an honest attempt at a, b, c, d, e,f and g, h... Even still, can you have a guess at questions a, b, c, d, e,f and g, h... I don’t want to make mistakes, so am just asking for my confusions to be cleared up. Please have a go at answering them Thanks
a) Can this method of hosting 10 blogs on 1 domain 'slow down' each blog? in the fact that they are all getting their power from 1 hosting account, so more on the account will slow each one down? or doesn’t it work like that, so they should be fine? No it will not slow down the blog. b) have you done this method before? installed many blogs on 1 domain? Yes. c) What is the maximum amount of blogs that you have hosted/installed on 1 single domain? 10 wp blog. d) Was it successful ? or did it slow the whole site down? No coz my server is i7 860 with 8G Ram. e) How many would you advise me to install maximum? or is 9-10 ok? even 12? For starting 12 blog is enough. f) Does the fact that 10 blogs are on 10 separate databases (1 database per blog) mean that each one SHOULD NOT get slowed down? - from a technical programming-hosting point of view? Your blog load speed is depend on what server processor your host use. g) or should i just test it, and see how it goes? or it isnt worth as all 10 blogs would get really slow? You can test first. h) would the 10 blogs be pulling power from the 1 domain, even though they are on 10 separate databases? or they will run as fast as each other as a database separates ten blogs? Equal speed coz each shared hosting account is allocated same speed.
I suggest you use the new 3.0 version of WP with multisite feature. This allows you to create unlimited sites with only one WP install. Of course, that's better than your solution.
Most of your questions center around what kind of hosting you have. Whether or not it will slow down your blogs, and all of those similar questions have not much to do with Worpdress or how many blogs you have, but how powerful your hosting account is. Wordpress MU can handle thousands of blogs, and if you have a big enough hosting account you can install 1000's of separate installations of WP single user in any configuration you want..as subdomains, as sub folders..none of that matters. What maters is what kind of hosting you have.