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. ¶
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スム| February 5th, 2007 @ 4:21 am |
that’s real success
Kyramas | February 5th, 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 !
Ulrich | February 5th, 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.
Yves Roumazeilles | February 5th, 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
Jenny | February 5th, 2007 @ 9:19 am |
wow. thats insane. congrats!!
TechZ | February 5th, 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 5th, 2007 @ 11:13 am |
Wow, already downloaded over 275,000 times!
shoemoney | February 5th, 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 5th, 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.
Doug Karr | February 5th, 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
Christoph Voigt | February 6th, 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.
Shahzad Khan | February 6th, 2007 @ 2:34 pm |
congrats.. a big congrats on that, and cheers to the whole WP team !
peace
-mE
ceejayoz | February 6th, 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…
Ryan | February 7th, 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 12th, 2007 @ 8:45 am |
Why not drop the releases on S3 (like SecondLife did). It would surely make everyones life easier (and cheaper
).