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2.1 downloads

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Version 2.1 of WordPress has been downloaded an average of 19,483 times a day since it was released. The increased traffic on the site as a result has put a strain of the single server it runs on, we’re adding more soon.


18 Comments

  • スロ — February 5, 2007 @ 4:21 am

    that’s real success

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  • Kyramas — February 5, 2007 @ 5:27 am

    Popularity comes with a price.
    And wordpress is damn popular.
    Too bad I am on wordpress.com only now.
    I already miss fiddling with the installation files…themes…css… :(
    I guess its an addiction !

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  • Ulrich — February 5, 2007 @ 6:39 am

    Hi Matt

    Just an idea, but how about distributing it via .torrent instead? That woulden’t require you using money on servers.

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  • Yves Roumazeilles — February 5, 2007 @ 7:04 am

    It will be interesting to see whether this downloads increase will result in a larger growth of the installed base or if it mostly an effect of existing sites upgrading themselves to 2.1

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  • Jenny — February 5, 2007 @ 9:19 am

    wow. thats insane. congrats!!

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  • TechZ — February 5, 2007 @ 9:28 am

    Just goes to show how good WP really is, and it’s reach around the blog world.

    Keep up the great work :)

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  • Lloyd — February 5, 2007 @ 11:13 am

    Wow, already downloaded over 275,000 times!

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  • shoemoney — February 5, 2007 @ 11:14 am

    matt check out thttpd for static content… much better then apache if you havent already ;)

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  • Matt — February 5, 2007 @ 1:59 pm

    Downloads are easy to scale, we use a web server that’s very good with static files too, it’s just that the people who download are spending a lot more time on the blog, forums, ideas forum, wiki, etc and that’s where (I think) the load is coming from.

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  • Doug Karr — February 5, 2007 @ 9:48 pm

    Congratulations, Matt. People continue to argue with me about other platforms and applications to blog in. You folks simply have them beat, hands down. As well, by having a steady focus on customization, integration and application – the success will continue.

    Please tell the team that they are doing great things.

    Doug

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  • Christoph Voigt — February 6, 2007 @ 5:50 am

    ~20.000 downloads a day is a great figure! Congratulations :)

    @Ulrich: distribution via BT initially looks like a great deal – but it pretty much depends upon what you distribute.
    With the release of TO:Crossfire (http://www.to-crossfire.net) Beta 1.0 we went with a “preload” via BT too. It was a huge success, resulting in our http/ftp mirrors still working when we did the “actual” release.
    Although this distributionmethod worked for us, I dont think it could work for WordPress. It’s too much effort for Average Joe to get himself into BT. Starting a simple http/ftp download is something the user knows and is happy to use.

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  • Shahzad Khan — February 6, 2007 @ 2:34 pm

    congrats.. a big congrats on that, and cheers to the whole WP team !

    peace
    -mE

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  • ceejayoz — February 6, 2007 @ 5:08 pm

    “It’s too much effort for Average Joe to get himself into BT.”

    Honestly, I don’t think someone with a PHP/mySQL server available really counts as an ‘Average Joe’. WordPress is phenomenally easy, but it’s certainly harder to get into than BitTorrent…

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  • Ryan — February 7, 2007 @ 7:21 pm

    I don’t think bittorent will help so much as it’s the blog and forums that are using up so much of the server. The downloads are under a megabyte in size, so bittorent won’t save that much bandwidth anyways.

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  • Eran Sandler — February 12, 2007 @ 8:45 am

    Why not drop the releases on S3 (like SecondLife did). It would surely make everyones life easier (and cheaper ;-) ).

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