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[John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>]

dave and serena-

be warry of running a big lyceum installation on a shared hosting plan. 
lyceum is powerful because it makes running a lot of blogs easy to manage 
and set up, it doesn't magically make 30 blogs run as if they were 1 blog 
:) a 300 blog lyceum site will put the same load on a server as 300 
average single blogs would. would your shared hosing site be okay with you 
running 300 (or however many) blogs on it? if so then you are okay. 
remember that oyu migiht be running only 15 this month, but before you 
know it in 10 months you might be running 120 and things will be slowing 
down and you might be getting complaints from your hosting provider.

That said, for folks who want to put up some blogs for themselves and some 
friends and don't anticipate hosting more than a few dozen blogs in the 
long term, lyceum on shared hosting is a great solution.

technical things to look at: you need php and mysql 4 (i can't remember 
the exact versions, check the documentation). if you can find a place with 
php and mysql 5, even better.

by default lyceum uses innodb mysql tables, so if possible find a host 
which supports those (many don't, incliding dreamhost until a few months 
ago).

dave- your own server would be a great place to host lyceum. os x server 
will run it just fine. i don't know what versions of php and mysql come 
with os x server these days, but you can always install your own. i can 
help you with this if need be (btw i live in ny now so i'm just down the 
road).

let me know if you guys have any more questions.

john


On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Serena K wrote:

> I'm planning to migrate the blogs I'm hosting from another blog software to 
> Lyceum in the very near future. Currently I have a little over 30 blogs 
> running. I host my sites with Dreamhost and never had any problems.
>
> Serena K
>
>
> Dave Pentecost <dave.pentecost AT gmail.com> wrote: Hi Folks
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations/warnings about hosting services for 
> Lyceum?
>
> I have just registered a domain on GoDaddy and I am considering a
> number of options:
>
> GoDaddy itself
> My current host (a web admin pal who has been great over the years but
> may be over-committed)
> Our own server (which we do not have yet, but are considering an Xserve)
>
> You should know that this will be used for a non-profit girls club as
> we enter a science/tech education phase. Starting to work with it on
> our own server, including headaches and learning curve, would be part
> of the tech girls process. And we are an all-OS X operation.
>
> We are currently running two Wordpress blogs and two MT blogs with our
> web pal, with no problems. But I worry about starting up another
> 50-100 blogs on his server.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Dave

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