Title: How Much Can WordPress Handle? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # How Much Can WordPress Handle? * [David Bisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimensionmedia/) * (@dimensionmedia) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/) * 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. 🙂 Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225263) * From what I have heard, it’s very realistic. For example, both [The Apple Blog](http://www.theappleblog.com/) and [The Apple Student Blog](http://education.apple.com/students/blog/) draw similar traffic amounts. * If you are going for a large # of visitors, I highly recommend that you use the [WP-Cache](http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/) plugin. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225264) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225267) * Yes, there were several U.S. governor, representative, and senator candidates using WordPress during the election times. * Thread Starter [David Bisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimensionmedia/) * (@dimensionmedia) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225271) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225274) * > 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225276) * > anyone ever run a WordPress blog that had over 500 visitors at the same time? * Yes, both [The Apple Blog](http://www.theappleblog.com/) and [The Apple Student Blog](http://education.apple.com/students/blog/) draw similar traffic amounts. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225283) * [http://www.rosie.com/](http://www.rosie.com/) Rosie O’Donnell gets traffic * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225285) * [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/26/staticise-analysis/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225303) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimensionmedia/) * (@dimensionmedia) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225304) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimensionmedia/) * (@dimensionmedia) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225305) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimensionmedia/) * (@dimensionmedia) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225309) * this might be one for the record books, even if the information above it accurate. * [http://photomatt.net/2005/05/18/high-traffic-sites/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-much-can-wordpress-handle/#post-225315) * Staticize is technically no longer supported by its original developer, so I would recommend WP-Cache. 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