[wp-hackers] Let's create a WordPress hosting cooperative

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It's an amazing idea! Wish I had any hosting space at all to provide.
Currently my overly expensive hosting sucks and my memory outages have just
gone wild. Some real WP knowledge people would really help.



On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com@
callum-macdonald.com> wrote:

> Holamigos,
>
> This list is filled with brilliant people hosting WordPress sites.
> Keeping sites up to date, secure, backed up, and so on. Let's come
> together and share some of that work to make all our lives easier, much
> like co-created free software makes our lives easier.
>
> Here's the 30 second version:
>
> Let's form a group of co-cooperators who communally host WordPress
> sites. We charge for customer sites and we split any extra expense
> between the member sites. We start small, a couple of servers maybe. As
> time goes one, we might expand our operations to provide a distributed,
> load balanced, highly available hosting cluster, who knows.
>
> To start with, instead of updating 10 or 20 sites every time WordPress
> or a plugin is updated, update 50 or 100 every so often with a set of
> automated shell tools.
>
> If you're interested, I invite you to join the discussion here:
> http://www.callum-macdonald.com/?p=2189
>
> Love and light - Callum.
>
>
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