[jacques_chester]

My bloggers have several non-standard plugins and non-standard theme tweaks.

Edit: and oh yes, 2.5Gb of media.

The big kicker is that my migrations can only occur by SQL. Using WXR is fine for any blog that can be turned from XML into PHP objects ... inside the execution-time limit.

Otherwise Wordpress thinks it's just hilarious to silently fail to import anything that doesn't make the execution-time cutoff.

And I don't think I am a big enough fish for wordpress.com to bother to help me do an SQL migration.

[sgdesign]

Any reason you're not hosting media on S3? That makes it a lot easier to move hosts, too.

[jacques_chester]

Put simply: cost. Collectively it's a few hundred Gb per month of traffic which is completely covered by my Linode plan.

These days I've put most of the sites behind Cloudflare, which has the effect that a lot of my media is being mirrored in their Sydney DC, which is nice because most of the readership is Australian -- the same reason I went to the Tokyo centre this time.

[andrewf]

The Tokyo DC isn't a universal win for Australia. The results are actually pretty bimodal depending on your ISP.

From Perth, iiNet routes directly to Asia, and it's a big win. But Amnet routes AU -> US -> Asia and it's a big loss.

It's a big enough issue Australia-wide that Blizzard sells a dual-region Starcraft 2 in Australia, because (ping to battle.net Singapore for some) > (ping to battle.net US) > (ping to battle.net Singapore for others) to a significant degree.

[jacques_chester]

Fascinating, I didn't know that.

So, being in Perth, I've picked the DC that serves me best. Hmm. I guess I will ask my bloggers how noticeable it is.

I tossed up hosting in Australia, but the bandwidth is just so utterly ruinous.