[bovermyer]

Those three concerns are one-off operations with minimal time investment, even if you don't automate most of the process.

[johnchristopher]

There are not one-off since I'd have to perform them every time.

[bovermyer]

Every time? I'm confused. How frequently are you setting up new blogs? If it IS frequent, why have you not automated the process?

[johnchristopher]

I am frequently setting up new services for try out which are not blogs (e.g.: vpn, online bookmarks manager, chat services, file syncing services, etc.). These require different setting in the reverse proxy and a different subdomain.