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  • From: John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: Serena K <serenityinblue AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: Lyceum-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Lyceum-users] Hosting Lyceum - suggestions?
  • Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:28:50 -0400 (EDT)

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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