Ugh Wordpress What Happened To Us

I can’t believe I was contemplating using WP as an enterprise CMS like one month ago? I mean it’s fine for my tiny little projects but what a pain upgrades have been. I mean I guess I could use it on a giant project if I had some kind of science mind level attention to minute details and extremely attentive backup tactics, but I just DON’T I have too much shit going on in my daily to maintain pristine granular backups for 20 sites hosted in various virtual settings.

The problem is that I come at CMS’ from the perspective of a “blogger”/”small community organizer”. So if I’m suddenly planning for a massive publication, it’s terrifying, because their needs are so different it might as well not even be the same application. And I’m looking at MT which has a nice-looking interface that would probably make sense to my team, but seriously I don’t like the software very much and really never thought I’d be stuck using a bunch of cgi scripts again. Two steps back, for me, development-wise. My other thought is using Drupal, but the learning curve on it is very steep compared to MT. I get the feeling that it’s worthwhile to learn it, and that Drupal can offer things MT’s incapable of, and for free!, but vague inklings aren’t really the kind of thing I generally like to base system overhauls on.

Does anyone have experience with enterprise-level content management? Particularly on a virtual host? What are some best practices that would help me head off cataclysmic disasters?