Title: CPU usage with native WordPress galleries
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# CPU usage with native WordPress galleries

 *  [IcarusD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icarusd/)
 * (@icarusd)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-with-native-wordpress-galleries/)
 * I’ve had to abandon the photo gallery plugin I was using because it was using
   an inordinate amount of my shared hosted server’s CPU capacity (upwards of 12%).
 * One of the alternatives I am considering is using WordPress’ native image galleries
   instead, but before I go through the trouble of doing that, I’m wondering if 
   anyone has experience using that for a _lot_ of photos and whether that would
   also use a lot of CPU processing?
 * My site currently has 25,000 photos, all resized to be 850×600 pixels, around
   65 to 100 kb each. There’s a photo gallery for each blog post with anywhere from
   10 to 200 photos per gallery, but averaging around 75 per gallery. I’m hoping
   to scale up to 75,000 to 100,000 photos within the next three or four years.
 * Does anyone have any insights on whether WordPress’ native photo galleries can
   handle that without using too much CPU processing?
 * Thank you!

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 *  anonymized-13749270
 * (@anonymized-13749270)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-with-native-wordpress-galleries/#post-6030048)
 * All I know is that images use resource to load and bandwidth when you have downloads
   or hotlinks..
 * Try out Cloudflare CDN, it will simply cache the images and save you up bandwidth
   and CPU resources.. I kept getting my site suspended by the host due to high 
   CPU usage, until I set up a free Cloudflare pack..
 * Try it out ( cloudflare.com ) maybe temporary solution until you find a fix, 
   or switch to a VPS hosting..

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 * [image galleries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-galleries/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)

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