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Comment on September 2009 – 2010 traffic comparison. by Scott

Scott — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:04:56 +0000

Hey Jim,

About 60% of that 2 million to elearning.ubc.ca the rest was distributed across 50+ other sites with mapped domains. A couple of those taking more than most. To prepare we did pretty basic stuff caching at a few levels, db server, eliminate all plugins that are not needed etc. We are fortunate to have really good VM infrastructure thanks to UBC IT so we can scale up fairly quickly (add disk, memory, CPU) could not imagine doing this the old way now…

I would recommend keeping it separate from the campus blogging platform. The CMS will probably see more traffic and some of the sites like elearning can basically never go down (access to the campus LMS). Where as blogs you can be a little more experimental trying out BuddyPress etc. We flipped flopped on this at first would it be easier to run one system or two. I am very happy with our decision to separate now even though it means more work.

Comment on September 2009 – 2010 traffic comparison. by Jim

Jim — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:09:50 +0000

2 million page vies in a month on elearning.ubc.ca? Wow, how did you prepare for that kind of traffic? Cause UMW is moving its entire site to WordPress, and we may have to consult with you about how you are ramping up the CMS portion of your site, cause while blogs are still the backbone of what we do, they are quickly becoming sites, and for many that allows for a more “professional” influx of requests and traffic, and we are feeling it big time.

Congratulations to all of you, this is very rad.

Comment on September 2009 – 2010 traffic comparison. by Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:22:08 +0000

Thanks for the traffic spike 60% of the traffic increase on the WordPress CMS is from elearning.ubc.ca

Comment on September 2009 – 2010 traffic comparison. by William Ono

William Ono — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:50:38 +0000

Congratulations on launch and ramp-up!

Comment on Zuckerberg says the web must not die. by Scott

Scott — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:40:51 +0000

That’s not a standard across all browsers. It’s a third party library.

Comment on Zuckerberg says the web must not die. by Enej

Enej — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:37:57 +0000

Well you can, write a mobile app once, phonegap has been around for a while.

Comment on Database Makeover by Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:30:06 +0000

You were not the only one… and a few support messages as well.

Something we should have done from day one.

Comment on Database Makeover by blamb

blamb — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:23:57 +0000

Of course, I am very grateful and impressed that you took the time to implement (and document) this process. But I frankly resent having a source of 3:00 AM passive aggressive outlets being withdrawn from me.

Comment on Expire Headers! An easy way to speed up your website. by Tony

Tony — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:44:03 +0000

Doesn’t seem hard to do either! I should try this with public affairs and maybe UBC.ca

Comment on Expire Headers! An easy way to speed up your website. by Michael

Michael — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:21:32 +0000

big performance boost there. 90+ yslow score

Comment on Positive response. by Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:50:28 +0000

Can’t say enough how happy I am you are watching over UBC Blogs like a protective hawk…

Comment on 400! by Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:58 +0000

Man, you guys never cease to amaze me.

Comment on 400! by novak

novak — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:15:09 +0000

thank you for setting up and maintaining such a robust system!

Comment on Positive response. by Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:12:49 +0000

Hi Jim,
Not sure about wpmufeed.php I killed it because no one was using it. Top posts could probably be improved and it would be Ok but we basically had two years of recording so it was slow just because of the numbers, would be easy to fix (just cron something to delete the records). I just thought it was easier to delete it. I think in our next theme we will have something similar just try to tweak it so it is more scalable.

I should have done a proper test but was lazy.

-scott

Comment on Positive response. by Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:54:20 +0000

You have no idea how helpful these posts are for me, thanks Scott. wpmufeed.php and to-posts dropped

Comment on Blog, blog, blog, blogs, Sites! In WordPress 3.0 blogs are sites Finally! by novak

novak — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:56:17 +0000

we were actually quite visionary when we gave our blogs instance name “sites”
The “sites” fits better, though blogs is easier to pronounce.
either way, wp is becoming the synonym for blogs and sites.
just wordpress it!

Comment on Performance Testing with Google Speed Tracer by Michael

Michael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:12:15 +0000

This is going to be very useful.

Comment on UBC Blogs Stats and Growth by Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:48:37 +0000

we used:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-and-comments-growth/

Comment on UBC Blogs Stats and Growth by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:39:57 +0000

what plugin are you using for the User and Blogs Growth in this article?

is it possible to get it?

Comment on Improved add user feature on UBC Blogs by Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:55:42 +0000

No, we aren’t using any external system, it’s independent of our major info systems, so it may not make sense for us at all. I was wondering what CWL CAS meant