One way it would be faster would be that you only would have to upload the files once to each server. Then you can locally copy the files on each server to the other accounts. I guess that’s what Matt meant. Ofcourse, in the future we probably don’t have to care about that, we just need one big wordpress installation and all blogs will be served from that! 😉
With command line access to the server you wouldn’t have to upload the files at all – instead, you could download the .tar.gz file directly to the server and unzip it there. Much quicker than uploading dozens of individual files:
Yeah, you have to have shell access which some hosts don’t provide automatically these days. Downloading and extracting the code directly on the server saves the bulk of the time most people spend installing. Personally the longest thing in a WP installation is finding where I put the DB username and password. 🙂
why would it be faster with SSH? even if it was some GUI ssh program where you could still drag ‘n drop the files.
unless i’m missing something large like WP has some command line installer?
One way it would be faster would be that you only would have to upload the files once to each server. Then you can locally copy the files on each server to the other accounts. I guess that’s what Matt meant. Ofcourse, in the future we probably don’t have to care about that, we just need one big wordpress installation and all blogs will be served from that! 😉
With command line access to the server you wouldn’t have to upload the files at all – instead, you could download the .tar.gz file directly to the server and unzip it there. Much quicker than uploading dozens of individual files:
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tzt.gz
That second line should be:
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
Simon, that’s correct, but that would also require access to wget and tar. 😉
It’s too much for me!
Yeah, you have to have shell access which some hosts don’t provide automatically these days. Downloading and extracting the code directly on the server saves the bulk of the time most people spend installing. Personally the longest thing in a WP installation is finding where I put the DB username and password. 🙂