Anish (at oz.blogial) is writing a 3 part series of comparisons of Linux distros in the eyes of corporate organisations. In that he is comparing Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora. Head over there to know which distro is suitable for your organisation.
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For almost one week I have been setting up Blogial Networks and have played around with Wordpress mu. I decided to use WPMU after trying out MovableType. I created a MT blog for FSLog and imported all the contents into it. With just about 350 posts, it created so many files for various views - single post, monthly archive, yearly archive, category view, etc. In total it took about 25 MB for all these files for just one blog.
Here are some of the basic reasons for not choosing MT and using WPMU:
- MT is huge. The zip file costs about 5MB and extracting it gets a 21MB monster out. Whereas WPMU is only 1.5MB - 6MB when extracted.
- Ease of use - during installation and for creating post.
- MovableType needs rebuilding so many files for every update to a single post. Missed out a word there, save it and republish the entire blog. This is unacceptable for a blog network which wants even technologically challenged people to blog. Not many would understand the republishing process (unless they are the old blogger type). I agree that plain html files are blazingly faster than executing more than 30 SQL queries for every request, but wp-cache does a great job in caching the rendered HTML pages in wordpress.
- Lot of plugins written in PHP. I can get my hands dirty with the plugins if I want to as I have seen and understood the Wordpress architecture more than MT’s.
Regarding the last point, I would be running a series of posts about the various plugins that we use here are Blogial and the problems and incompatibilities we faced while installing it in WPMU.
I am happy to announce that FSLog is now part of Blogial networks - a small blog network started by me and Sudarsan. We decided to start this blog network so that we can have a platform where people can cross post across various blogs thus creating good quality content.
If someone comes up and suggests a new idea for a blog - we will be happy to create a blog and make them the owner of it. He should then build the blog and most important of all, build a community around it. Any reader who wishes to contribute to a blog, can register and ask for becoming an author in it. This is all about trying to get more people to post in a single blog and to build the blog more social.
This blog network isn’t about making huge money or to compete with the big players. We are just simple minded people who want to blog about things passionate to us. Of course we would think about monetising and would also love to get donations(paypal:srinivasanr@gmail.com) so that we can sustain running this network.
I have this network running on a Wordpress-mu installation which is very easy to get a blog network up and running in minutes. I have it hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech and tried to bring fslog.com also into that. I know that wpmu supports multiple domain names and I tried using this Multi-Site Manager plugin - but couldn’t get fslog.com work in NFShost. Also for creating a blog in blogial, I should manually create an alias in NFS. This needs to be changed asap and we are looking at moving onto a better host (maybe a VPS). If someone can give us some good offer for a VPS, we are listening to you. Till we can fix this, FSLog is going to be on a seperate Wordpress installation.
I am in the process of setting up the blog, installing plugins and creating blogs. Right now we have 3 blogs under blogial.
- FSLog - This one
- Codelog - about programming owned by Sudarsan (previously ProgrammersLog)
- OZ - about living in Australia owned by Anish
I am open to any other blogs that you may want to be here.
I am also looking at creating some good themes for the blog and also a logo for blogial. If someone can help us in it, we would be very happy.
Since we now have more people to post in this blog, you can be sure to get good, quality content here on the network.