The Unwasted Life — Eric Wallace's weblog
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What a wonderful world we live in where we can make a comment in a Podcast that triggers a response on someone’s Facebook page and that triggers a mea culpa on someone else’s blog. Ah, technology.
— Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse in an interview with Michael Ausiello
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Here is a very interesting thread started today in the TextDrive Forums: Who’s Biggest Shared Hosting Resource Hog: WP or MT?
Doubtless due to having too much time on my hands, I’ve built two visually identical versions of a new blog that will be eventually hosted here. One version is in WordPress, the other is in Movable Type.
Personally, I don’t have any real preference for either WP or MT. But, I do have a bias for static pages, because I think (imagine?) that they’re delivered faster from a reader’s point of view. Subjectively speaking, static sites feel snappier to me than a lot of WP sites.
Hence, I’ve got two questions:
1) Side by side, on the same machine with the same browser, would Jill Reader really see a static page produced by MT before she’d see the identical page delivered by WP?
2) Which of the two platforms is most likely to run afoul of CPU/memory/etc. limits imposed by shared hosting? I know this really isn’t an issue for the typical blog with minimal readership, but let’s dream. Suppose a site does become popular. WP is going to be busy generating a lot of database queries. MT is going to be busy rebuilding some number of pages pages every time someone posts a comment. (MT won’t rebuild the entire site on its own.) I’m assuming the sites have identical content, the same posting rate, same comments, etc.
(There are plenty of complaints on the web from MT users who’ve run into problems obviously caused by excessive resource use on a shared host. But, if you look, there are also complaints from WP users who’ve run into problems.)
I’ve left comment spam out of the equation because I suspect both platforms are equally vulnerable. Akismet and other equivalent spam countermeasures are avaiable [sic] for both.
I’m shooting in the dark here, but I’m guessing that the key variable might be the comments. I.e., with few comments the edge might go to MT, but as comments increase, the rebuilds will suck more resources than the corresponding database activity will with WP.
Has anyone ever run some numbers on this?
I would love to see some great discussion around this. Will Jason weigh in? My gut tells me the Perl/CGI structure of Movable Type is the bigger resource drain, but I could be wrong.
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Seeing WordPress 2.1 is nearing beta, I decided to upgrade ecrosstexas today. I figured why continue to tweak the site with an outdated version.
My favorite feature allows you to control the “front page” of your site. Glad to see this is finally baked into the core. I am using this to serve the Howdy Y’all notice at http://ecrosstexas.com and the texas blog at http://ecrosstexas.com/blog.
I wonder if this will help at all with my technorati issue?
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I heard the tail end of Mike Gallagher’s segment with Tom DeLay this morning. Looks like he is going to make a come back via the blog and his Grassroots Action and Information Network (GAIN). Welcome to the blogosphere Tom. I wish more of our leaders were involved here.
In Tom’s own words:
In all honesty, I did not fully realize the impact or potential of the blogosphere until very recently, when Red State gave me the opportunity to post some of my observations in the wake of the recent midterm elections. The response I received was overwhelming, and I would like to again thank the fine people at that site.
This experience brought me to the immediate realization that I needed to become more directly involved in the blogosphere. TomDeLay.com is the product of our latest effort to find new ways to connect, unite and organize conservatives from all over America into a real grassroots political force.
Looking at the GAIN application (you might want to convert this to PDF format) I notice the requirements for two references who can vouch for one’s past in grassroots efforts. Are newcomers unwelcome in GAIN? The “impact and potential of the blogosphere” will bring many to want to get involved for the first time, only to be turned away. (Mr. DeLay, please correct me if I am wrong about GAIN membership.)
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