Hosting Multiple Blogs with One WordPress Installation
I recently spent some time looking for the ideal platform for this blog… starting with free hosted solutions like wordpress.com and blogger.com. They both worked fine and got me up and running right away, but wordpress.com doesn’t allow any javascript or flash embeds and blogger just didn’t seem powerful enough.
I was trying to avoid hosting yet another custom WordPress installation on my own servers because maintaining them can be quite annoying sometimes… but in the end I figured it would give me the most flexibility. Luckily, I found a hack called Virtual Multiblog for WordPress. This simple download lets you install WordPress on your server just once, but gives you the ability to run many different blogs from it. So I was able to consolidate all my self-hosted blogs under one installation, making upgrades and maintenance MUCH easier down the line. Each blog can still have its own template, plugins, config file, etc.
If you need to host more than one WordPress blog on your own server, definitely take a look… it only takes a few minutes to set up but does require some knowledge on how to set up symbolic links etc. In the long run it should save you many hours of maintenance work 
