How Much Can WordPress Handle?

  • David Bisset

    (@dimensionmedia)


    20 years, 11 months ago

    I’m getting ready to start a major project for a major celeb website (can’t say who yet) and want to use WordPress for the news reporting (so no commenting will be allowed).

    My question is that what’s your experience in how many people could flock to a WordPress site without slowing it down to a crawl (with and without the WP-cache plugin). Of course, a thousand different variables can play a part but I’m looking for people’s experiences and feedback. One piece of information I can give is that this website has a decicated server, which stats are:

    Dual Intel Xeon 2.4
    1GB RAM
    120GB IDE
    600GB Bandwidth Allowed By Hosting Company

    This is the most powerful single server the hosting company could provide.

    I’m looking to support 500-750 people at the same time (1000 would be awesome). Knowledge people – is this realistic?

    Thanks for any input. Although I have two WordPress blogs personally, I still consider myself somewhat a newbie. 🙂

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    From what I have heard, it’s very realistic. For example, both The Apple Blog and The Apple Student Blog draw similar traffic amounts.

    If you are going for a large # of visitors, I highly recommend that you use the WP-Cache plugin.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    There were a few posts like this around the time of the run-up to the US elections. If you do a search for either person involved and ‘wordpress’ a number will come up. None of them ever came back complaining.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, there were several U.S. governor, representative, and senator candidates using WordPress during the election times.

    Thread Starter David Bisset

    (@dimensionmedia)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve tried several search words including “governor” and “elections” and couldn’t find anything revlant. If you know of anything specific, please let me know.

    I’m also looking for personal experiences – anyone ever run a WordPress blog that had over 500 visitors at the same time?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve tried several search words including “governor” and “elections” and couldn’t find anything revlant. If you know of anything specific, please let me know.

    I believe they have all been closed by now as the elections in question have been over for quite some time.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    anyone ever run a WordPress blog that had over 500 visitors at the same time?

    Yes, both The Apple Blog and The Apple Student Blog draw similar traffic amounts.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    http://www.rosie.com/
    Rosie O’Donnell gets traffic

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/26/staticise-analysis/

    “the server was hit with 5 simultaneous connections every second for two minutes while apachebench recorded load average every ten seconds.”

    davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    So long as you are using caching mechanisms, you will find the dual xeon doesn’t help you as much as more ram would! Big disk caches, for example, could store a lot in memory. You can also use mysql query caching, to eliminate actual querying of the database.

    But, throughput is only half the battle. You may want to have smaller redundant drives (ide, sata, or scsi), mirrored so if one fails the machine doesn’t go down.

    Hosting companies don’t always offer you the best boxes — they offer in many cases what they can make the most money off of, what they have on hand, or what they typically run — all three to benefit them more than you. 😉

    -d

    Thread Starter David Bisset

    (@dimensionmedia)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Sounds like with either WP-Config or Staticise, my numbers are very realistic. However, this brings me to the next logical question – which of these plugins do you recommend (assuming you can’t use them together) or in which you see the best results?

    Thread Starter David Bisset

    (@dimensionmedia)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    davidchait, thanks for the $0.02. If it makes any difference, this one website is the only site on the box and total file usage for the site will be about 5% of total HD space, leaving 95% open (90GB?). There is another HD for backup purposes.

    Thread Starter David Bisset

    (@dimensionmedia)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    this might be one for the record books, even if the information above it accurate.

    http://photomatt.net/2005/05/18/high-traffic-sites/

    Everyone made a big deal with 300,000 hits per day…

    …the current site is already pulling in 300,000 and has peaked this month at 500,000. These are hit, not visitors, but still makes me wonder… 🙂

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Staticize is technically no longer supported by its original developer, so I would recommend WP-Cache.

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