2 years, 5 months ago
How many posts can a blog running on Wordpress have before "bad things" start to happen (assuming the wp-supercache plugin is installed)?
By bad things, I basically mean, it starts to run unbearably slowly or something get corrupted. Can a blog running on Wordpress run perfectly fine even if 10,000 posts have been created?
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There are two big variables here: the database (most likely MySQL) and the traffic hitting your site.
According to MySQL's scalability and limites: "Support for large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows. " So it looks like the database won't be a problem.
Your traffic shouldn't be a problem if you're using a cahceing plugin like WP-SuperCache which outputs static HTML pages. Your server would have no problem with that. The biggest problem you might run in to is if you got one request for each unique post as your server would try to make hundreds of thousands of requests. This is a very unlikely scenario.
Other than that you are only limited by your database storage and CPU/RAM of your server.
WordPress.com runs off of WordPress MU which is a slightly modified version of WordPress geared towards a blogging network and it seems to be humming along just fine.
According to MySQL's scalability and limites: "Support for large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows. " So it looks like the database won't be a problem.
Your traffic shouldn't be a problem if you're using a cahceing plugin like WP-SuperCache which outputs static HTML pages. Your server would have no problem with that. The biggest problem you might run in to is if you got one request for each unique post as your server would try to make hundreds of thousands of requests. This is a very unlikely scenario.
Other than that you are only limited by your database storage and CPU/RAM of your server.
WordPress.com runs off of WordPress MU which is a slightly modified version of WordPress geared towards a blogging network and it seems to be humming along just fine.
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