Survey: Whys and Hows
July 7, 2006I’ve just written up responses to some of the Why? and How? questions on the survey of WPMU admins.
To summarize, the typical WPMU admin runs his site more for social than for economic reasons, was already familiar with WP when he chose WPMU, likes the fact that WPMU is free (as in speech and as in beer), and funds the sites out of his own pocket.
Reponses on how the site is hosted are more mixed, with just over half of the admins hosting their own sites, rather than purchasing server capacity. If you’re interested in further detail, there’s the above link, then there’s Comments in this blog, or email.
July 7th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Well I fit right in with this demographic. ;) What is meant by “shared hosting” is that the MU site is run on a server with a bunch of other sites from other people. Some hosts have insisted that MU be run on its own server. For a smaller MU site, it’s not much of an issue, I think.
And for correlations between the “why”s? My guess is out of all the bloggign software out there to work with, narrowed down to all the ones that have a loosely-corresponding multi-blog system, WP by far is easier, better supported and more accessable. Six Apart, with MT and LJ are a very distant second in that respect.
July 7th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Good points, as always, Andrea.
Of the solutions competing with WPMU, I’m surprised that no-one mentioned 21publish.