If you install wordpress blogs manually on a frequent basis, this question is for you. How long does it takes for you to upload the wordpress files through your ftp server (it has about 800+ files). Just curious as I had to spend around 40 to 45 minutes to upload all the files. My host offers fantastico script but its not the latest version of WP so I had to do it manually.
Yes, currently Fantastico has version 2.8.4 but latest version is 2.8.5 . My internet connection has around 512 kbps upload speed.. and it takes around 5 minute to upload wordress script.
through ftp client it will take time as the number of files to be transferred is high. If you zip that file and upload, it won't take more than a couple of minutes. Then from ur cpanel file manager you can extract it and continue with the wordpress installation.
Using Core FTP its takes me about ten minutes to upload the files. Fantastico may be faster but you are getting an out of date and incomplete install. You are much better off installing manually.
If you can access your server............the best way is upload the zip file (so you just upload 1 file).........then unzip it at server side...............It's super fast.............
Unzip can be done from cPanel also. 1) Upload zip file from cpanel -> File manager OR use any FTP client to upload zip file. 2) Go to cPanel -> File manager -> select the uploaded zip file. Once selected you'll few options like copy, move, delete, rename, unzip. Simply click on Unzip and it'll decompress your file into the containing directory.
Frequent wordpress installers use SVN. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion Takes about 30 seconds to install the files because they're coming from the wordpress servers directly to your server insetad of a slower home link. Makes running updates easy as well with a single 6 character command. 'svn up'
Wow, thanks for all your responses. I was not aware that file manager could unzip the files. That seems to be a good option. As I use wireless connection, my uploading speed depends on the file size of each file. If the file is large the speed increase, if it is only few bytes the uploading speed drastically decreases. Unzipping the file from server seems to be more faster and comfortable choice.
If you're on a host with shell access you can use wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unpack it right there. On that same thought, you can automate this with a script to keep your all wordpress blogs (as long as they're on a single server you own) updated.