
Over 10 Years of Experience with WordPress
I have over 10 years of experience in WordPress Multisite operation. This is a long time...

I made two WPMU based websites with a few thousand active users:
Ingyenblog.hu - That was my first WordPress project
- Started in 2009 (I was only 16 years old!)
- Free for everyone
- Ad-supported
- 13,5k active blogs in 2017
- One of the most popular blogger site in Hungary
- I sold it in 2018 (and the new owner didn't operate it well, so it doesn't work since a few months ago - It's not my business anymore :) )
- Fun fact: The database size was more than 15GB when I sold it
- Fun fact 2: The web hosting provider couldn't make a backup, so I had to operate it without any restore point. That is so risky!
Blogginger.com - That was my first international WPMU project
- Started in 2014
- 14 days trial
- Low monthly price rate (from $2)
- Ad-Free
- Automated SSL order by shell script when someone signed up
- Domain mapping was enabled for paid users
- Smart backup and self-diagnostic solutions on server-side by shell scripts
- But that was no so popular because I didn't promote it enough
- 3-4k signups, but only a few active (paid) users
- Shutted down in Marc of 2021
After that my next project is this blog, so I can share my best practices here. Yes, I know this website based on Publii, and the reason behind this choice is the safety and speed.
My opinion about WordPress is mixed...
Advantages:
- Open source
- Quickly fixing bugs and security issues
- Huge community
- Lot of plugins to extend features
- Easy to use
- Translated to all languages
Disadvantages:
- Slow, because the codebase is big
- You need lots of plugins for additional features
- Using a lot of plugins is a security issue
- Using a lot of plugins cause slow website speed
- Website can down sometimes without any reason
- Required SQL database (due to security and performance issue)
- Required a lot of resource
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