Multiple Blogs

[Ashmae]

To use multiple blogs, do I just upload the Serendipity package into separate folders on the webserver, and run the install one at a time using different table prefix? I want to create 100ish Blogs, for separate users, all under the same domain.

Thanks for your help


EDIT: On a side note, everything seems to be running extremely slow. This is a new domain, on a new hosting package (apache box, and SQL on Linux) with a new Database setup and a standard install of the package.

a) Is there something I can do to speed access time up? If you would like me to copy / paste any info from my end, or need to look at something just let me know.

and b) will 100 separate blogs cause a problem with performance?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, you can either do that by installing just multiple Serendipitys on your server, or you can use the "Shared Installation" mode of Serendipity, which is documented on www.s9y.org. However this requires at least some technical knowledge of how Apache and PHP work.

EDIT: On a side note, everything seems to be running extremely slow. This is a new domain, on a new hosting package (apache box, and SQL on Linux) with a new Database setup and a standard install of the package.

I need some more information. Which PHP, which SQL, which serendipity.

"Slowness" can be caused by a multitude of things; it might even be network related, so that you just have a lagging connection to your server?

The URL to one of those slow blogs might also help for me to check/benchmark some things!

and b) will 100 separate blogs cause a problem with performance?

You can have 1 Million of Blogs installed on your server, but in the end all that matters is "requests per second". If each blog only has a few visitors a day, you can handle many.

If each blog has one hit per second, you will need to have more than just one server to handle that kind of traffic - no matter which blog software you need.

Depending on the hardware of your server you can usually handle about 6 to 15 requests per second.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Ashmae]

Hosting - Godaddy - Deluxe Hosting with CGI - b - Linux box hosted
SQL - 4.0.27
PHP - 4.3.11

The domain ( yourwindermere.com ) at this point doesn't have anything on it. I have only put Serendipity on the website so far and one database for its installation.

If you want to check out the load times I am speaking of, s9y is installed here;

http://www.yourwindermere.com/serendipity

If there is anything else you need, please let me know!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Wow, I fully agree, your page is absoultely slow.

Your ping times are already 4 times the ping times I get to usual pages, so that actually indicates a problem with the network itself.

Do you have SSH access to your machine and could check the CPU load of that server?

In either case - it does not seem serendipity related itself; any other blog will also run as slow on your server. I must admit serendipity might not be the fasted weblog engine around (no wonder with the amount of flexibility it gives you), but it is really not that slow that it would cause/explain the slowdowns on your site.

Maybe you could ask the godaddy.com support for help to ask them if they can explain why the site is so slow?

As a generall comparison, you could go to www.s9y.org and check some of the "Who's using" sites - you will see that most of them have much more content, and load 3-4 times faster.

I'm really sorry for that - hope we can find a culprit!

Best regards,
Garvin

[Ashmae]

I have a level 3 tech at GoDaddy looking into it with a 8 hour eta... /sigh


Anyways, I was thinking. When I did the initial setup for Serendipity, the screen that showed the green / yellow / red for server compatibility chart, I had nothing in the red, but had a few things that were yellow. I didn't take a very close look into it considering I don't have any SSH access to change things anyways, so just went ahead with the install.

Although I don't remember which things were yellow, I do know a few that said "recommended 10 megs" I had 2... Would options in there, perhaps be the reasons for slow response time?

Is there a way I can access that page again that checks compatibility without doing the actual install?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Those orange/red things actually only mean PHP config prerequisites. Nothing in there would be the culprit for a performance slowdown with this effect, I'm afraid.

The only thing that hurts performance is "magic_quotes_gpc = on". All other settings only affect features and functionality.

The upload limit for example just limits how large the files can be that you upload into the s9y media database.

Is there a way I can access that page again that checks compatibility without doing the actual install?

You could either temporarily remove your serendipity_config_local.inc.php, or put a new serendipity directory on your server that you can access, which would show the installer again...

Best regards,
Garvin