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.
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.
that’s real success
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 !
Hi Matt
Just an idea, but how about distributing it via .torrent instead? That woulden’t require you using money on servers.
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
wow. thats insane. congrats!!
Just goes to show how good WP really is, and it’s reach around the blog world.
Keep up the great work 🙂
Wow, already downloaded over 275,000 times!
matt check out thttpd for static content… much better then apache if you havent already 😉
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.
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
~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.
congrats.. a big congrats on that, and cheers to the whole WP team !
peace
-mE
“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…
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.
Why not drop the releases on S3 (like SecondLife did). It would surely make everyones life easier (and cheaper 😉 ).