* It takes the headache out of maintaining multiple WordPress sites.
* The main plan is that everything is "set and forget". Install one plugin and that site is covered:
* Automatic updates for both point (3.7.1, 3.7.2, etc) and major releases (3.8, 3.9). The point releases should actually happen 1-2 days sooner than the 3.7 auto updates from Wordpress.
* Automatic plugin updates
* Automatic file and DB backups that are stored in S3
* Uptime and response time monitoring.
* "white screen of death" alerts
* Malware / blacklist scans and comparisons of core and plugin files against WordPress.org versions.
This was built for my own internal uses. I had one consulting client that managed around 600 sites and could not get their heads around the other management tools on the market, but could work from a Excel sheet that had the urls / usernames / passwords for all of their sites. When an update was ready, their procedure was: downloading all of the files via FTP, downloading a SQL dump, pressing the "update" buttons, looking at the home screen to make sure it loads, updating the excel sheet with the date and install version and moving on to the next site. They averaged 4 sites per hour. I'll let you do the math on how long that took to get through all of their sites.
It's cool because:
* It takes the headache out of maintaining multiple WordPress sites.
* The main plan is that everything is "set and forget". Install one plugin and that site is covered:
* Automatic updates for both point (3.7.1, 3.7.2, etc) and major releases (3.8, 3.9). The point releases should actually happen 1-2 days sooner than the 3.7 auto updates from Wordpress.
* Automatic plugin updates
* Automatic file and DB backups that are stored in S3
* Uptime and response time monitoring.
* "white screen of death" alerts
* Malware / blacklist scans and comparisons of core and plugin files against WordPress.org versions.
This was built for my own internal uses. I had one consulting client that managed around 600 sites and could not get their heads around the other management tools on the market, but could work from a Excel sheet that had the urls / usernames / passwords for all of their sites. When an update was ready, their procedure was: downloading all of the files via FTP, downloading a SQL dump, pressing the "update" buttons, looking at the home screen to make sure it loads, updating the excel sheet with the date and install version and moving on to the next site. They averaged 4 sites per hour. I'll let you do the math on how long that took to get through all of their sites.