Hosting BuddyPress

Read­ing all the blogs and forums about installing WPMU and Bud­dy­press, it seems that there are some par­tic­u­lar chal­lenges when set­ting up a Word­Press Multi-user script.

To run each member’s site on it’s own sub-domain

Most hosts run on Apache Ver­sion 2.0 and here the cre­ation of the Wild­card DNS entry does not require WHM access. Load­ing the cPanel x3 theme will do the trick: in x3 just cre­ate a sub-domain called “*” (with­out the quotes) and the prob­lem is solved. If you run on Apache Ver­sion 1, just fol­low the instruc­tions on the MU read-me file as well as Matt’s com­ments on his blog.

Tun run mem­ber sites in sub folders

There is no need to worry about the DNS settings.

We have not detected any par­tic­u­lar host­ing prob­lems here: to run a straight for­ward Buddy Press on MU with­out too many gim­micks and plug-ins should be pos­si­ble on most any host. We use Chi­Hosters where we can pro­vide users with the nec­es­sary assis­tance. For a small set-up, the stan­dard unlim­ited host­ing account at $35 per year will do –in theory.

Prac­ti­cally we encounter mem­ory prob­lems as soon as we go into more sophis­ti­ca­tion, such as Video Com­ments or other inter­est­ing fea­tures or more com­plex themes.

On our instal­la­tion at YORGOO Media server set­tings are tweaked to 64MB of mem­ory, instead of the more com­mon 8, 16 or 32 MB on shared hosts.

Our tests should return detailed data on the actual needs. Chi­Hosters will pro­vide scal­able solu­tions in the near future.

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