I have the following questions..

I will run WordPress MU. So, basically it’d be as blogger.com or wordpress.com.
I’m expecting to have at least 3 000 visitors a day by the end of the first month; then the figure would double with each month. Therefore, I need to know the following:

1.Is WP MU preinstalled or not?

2.Since WP MU has a feature of many subdomains registration (like blogger.com), is it possible to have unlimited number of domains in one account that would belong to different subaccounts?

3.Is it possible to have subdomains created instantly after they’ve registered at our web-site? There should not be a need to manually create folders.

4.Finally, what hosting account or server configuration would you recommend?

a.For the first month

b.After that period.

Thanks a lot.

blogods,

I have *not* been able to get Wordpress MU to run under Dreamhost. I am not yet willing to say that it *can't* be done, but while I have configured literally hundreds of 3rd Party scripts to run under Dreamhost I can't get WordPress MU to work under shared-hosting accounts here.

I have not tried any of this in a while now, so I took a guick google and found that at least one user claims to have got it to work! Check out:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/WordPress_MU#Step_Two:_Installing_WPMU

You might also be aware that, in the shared hosting environment, you *may* experience Dreamhost CPU usage llimit problems hosting numerous reasonably popular blogs.

As for your questions:

1)Nope, it is not pre-installed

2)I have not been able to find a way to do this

3)Unless there have been *major* changes to WordPress MU in the last couple of months, the *only* choice that I believe will work for you would be a dedicated server where you can configure your own system settiings to be compatible with WorpdPress MU. Currently, DH is not making such systems available, but they say they may be available later this year. The wiki article gives suggest it would be possible to use MU in a "shared" environmetn, but you would need to add a static ip feature, at extra monthly cost, to any of the shared plans ('cept, I believe, the "Strictly Business' plan)

I don't want to be discouraging, and hopefully some other user who has continued to phutz with WP MU will report better success.

Good luck, and if you try it, let us know how/if you succeed!

--rlparker



Edited by rlparker on 04/11/06 02:46 PM (server time).