Database Update for MultiSite

  • l2tmedia909

    (@l2tmedia909)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Our agency runs a multi-site “L2TMediaBlogs.com” with hundreds of client blogs. I have received a notification that a database update is required. From this, has stemmed quite a few questions that I am hoping you are able to assist me with.

    1) Do you have a recommended method or plug-in that is able to back-up our multi-sites before we upgrade the network? Our hosting provider gives us access to database back-ups but not entire site back-ups. I am going to look into other options but before I do I am hoping to get recommendations from you.

    2) Would this update help speed our blog site load times? We are encountering slow loading times for each of the blogs. When we reached out to our hosting provider we have received feedback that our content needs to be optimized. Do you have any other recommendations for that?

    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by James Huff. Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a multisite question

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    If you’re talking about the database update for a multisite that shows up in the admin panel then that will run during the first visit for the subsite that is requiring the update to be run if you don’t run it manually from the updates or admin pages.

    It’s more a housekeeping update than any kind of performance type update so don’t expect that to help your site by running it manually from the notification. That is provided so you can do the update all at once while you can pay some attention to it and at a time you determine to run that else it’s triggered for each subsite if and when the subsite gets visited.

    My best advice is to upgrade your webserver if you’re having performance issues… buy more horsepower!

    You might find one of these two plugins might help…

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-optimize/

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/autoptimize/

    If it was me, I’d run the first one as a tool for a brief period (maybe a day or two) then delete and switch to the second one permanently. People I trust swear by that second plugin and I believe the first to be an excellent product also.

    If you’re having minor slowdowns during high traffic periods, you might try a really good cache plugin like this one below and Cloudflare is good for about 10% to as much as a 20% PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT if your server can keep pace with Cloudflare.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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