Expansion of Service
June 15, 2008
We have made a few changes to the service and will directly improve the performance of the service and the space required for the upcoming improvements in our social networking. With the insight from some great people we have now setup our backup service well beyond what we originally planned and improved the hardware to deliver a great service for our friends and family. We are happy to have you all blogging with us and thank you for your patience through our upgrades.
Backing Up and WP-Super-Cache
March 13, 2008
We are currently backing up all the files and folders of Onvertigo Bloggers on a daily basis to ensure that we don’t lose anything if something happens to the server. These backups are done securely off-site to ensure we have access to back things up! We also are in the process of a complete weekly server backup to another off-site location to offer a bit of redundancy in our backups. We still encourage our bloggers to use their Dashboard -> Manage -> Export function every once in awhile to backup their blog specific content as well!
If that wasn’t enough backing up, starting today we have another backup of not only files, but all the server settings as well for the entire account on Media Temple through their Virtuosso interface. This is another backup on yet another backup space. While this one may seem like overkill, it is essential for our server admin (me). This allows me to backup at any point before executing changes on the server or the software installed so I can have a quick “revert” if the changes give undesired results!
While these are not really important to the end users directly, it should help eliminate any significant downtime when implementing upgrades and changes. It also serves as the quickest “restore point” if something does happen to the server. Our server is just a computer and we have to guard in case of hardware problems 
Media Temple is amazing in getting those things fixed quickly!
As well, we are now using the newest version of WP-Super-Cache on some of the blogs to help keep the server load down! It isn’t running on all blogs on the system, but running on the ones that might slow us down! Just another update!
Server Improvements
February 12, 2008
I beefed up the server.  It should be even faster now and has some greater limits.  The problem with WPMU (and wordpress for that matter) is that it is kind of a “resource hog” at times.   We are constantly working on finding improvements in the plugins we use as well as themes to get things working better.   The code is constantly being improved by the WPMU team and it is always better.
I was having a few minor issues with CPU time usage and just decided to get more resources.   Nothing is even close to capacity now and hope to keep the structure of the server so this is always the case.  It is most likely overkill for the time being, but as for the users, this is a great thing
Trent Adams