IS WORDPRESS ok to build a 5000 members website

  • befree33

    (@befree33)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    please can someone advise if wordpress is ideal to build a website where we could have up to 5000 thousand individual members all needing to log on and display 10 images of their work. At the moment we have 500, but after the website is completed it will be a lot more, almost instantaneously. Each image would need supportive text so the members can manipulate the text so that the image could be found by search engines.

    WE are being told that this is as good as any cms system you can buy off teh shelf. I love wordpress, but i am not sure if it is possible to scale upwards and be robust enough to accommodate all these members.

    many thanks

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  • UseShots

    (@useshots)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    I’m not sure if WordPress is the right choice for your specific task, but regarding the scaling issue: WordPress.com hosts 4,702,896 blogs, and as far as I understand it’s actually a multiuser WordPress setup. It’s just a matter of hardware and your (admin) skills.

    brockangelo

    (@brockangelo)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    I am building an intranet/CMS with wordpress for 800 users, and I would argue that it is not built to be a CMS. You can make it work, but there aren’t many features on the backend for managing uploaded files.

    You might want to check this out before you build something that will manage (5,000 users * 10 images) = 50,000 files to manage.

    http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143

    There are a lot of tools designed for your task. Probably not popular here, and I’ve not used it, but Drupal was rated one of the best CMS apps of 2008 and Joomla has very high ratings as well.

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