2 PHP or not 2 WPMU : Sun Giving Bloggers Servers

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Wordpress.com founder Matt Mullenwegg is looking for one of those free Sun Servers they are giving out to bloggers. ("if you write a blog that fairly assesses the machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer, we're likely to let you keep the machine. (And before you ask, the marketing team makes the decision about what qualifies for the promotion, not I - although I know they love drama, charts, and compelling competitive analyses.") BTW, any gun PHP programmers ping me to chat on some paid work opportunities in this area. Photo Matt : "I put in an application for a free Sun server to try out for either WordPress.com or Ping-o-Matic, depending on when/if it arrives. Everything we’ve done on WP.com has been Dell thus far, and honestly they’ve been pretty good with the exception of one box that they’re going to replace soon. Our biggest DB server (a Dell 6850) does north of 300 queries per second, but it weighs as much as me and uses a crazy amount of power, which is expensive. Of course as more and more of our infrastructure becomes distributed, high performance boxes don’t matter as much." Matt has also announced Wordpress.com Widgets, vkewl : "Basically what we’ve done is broken down the sidebars in themes into discrete blocks of goodness, and created an interface for you to add, delete, and rearrange them by simply dragging and dropping. It’s as easy as falling off a blog. The widgets are basic right now, things like search, categories, pages, etc, but we’re going to be adding more based on your requests and we’re opening up an API for anyone to create their own widgets. (It’s as writing a single function and wrapping it in a WordPress plugin.)"