Title: Network size
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Network size

 *  Resolved [xrun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xrun/)
 * (@xrun)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/)
 * Hi, and happy new year.
    I’m trying to find an answer for a question I’ve gotten
   from a colleague: How many blogs and users can a single wordpress network installation
   support?
 * Secondarily: what are the database requirements for larger networks of wordpress
   blogs in a single network installation?
 * Feel free to address one or both of these questions.

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/#post-2480673)
 * >  How many blogs and users can a single wordpress network installation support?
 * WordPress.com uses the same codebase and hanldes 28 million.
 * >  what are the database requirements for larger networks of wordpress blogs 
   > in a single network installation?
 * How large? One db can handle hundreds or even thousands. Then you can start sharding
   the db and scaling the b servers. Look at the Shardb plugin and HyperDB (from
   the people behind wp.com).
 * There’s no limit in the codebase. You only need to scale the servers – like you
   would with anything large.
 *  Thread Starter [xrun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xrun/)
 * (@xrun)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/#post-2480723)
 * Excellent, thank you Andrea.
    We’re realistically talking about a few hundred
   blogs within six months, maybe a few thousand within a year or two. Somewhere
   in that range. We’ve already taken Shardb into concideration.
 * BTW; if I may direct your attention to this issue:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-ms_posts-in-database](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-ms_posts-in-database)
   Trying to find out if this is a real problem, and how to resolve it. The posts
   in the blogs in the installation seems to come up fine though.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/#post-2480739)
 * > We’re realistically talking about a few hundred blogs within six months, maybe
   > a few thousand within a year or two. Somewhere in that range.
 * That’s nothing one dedicated box can;t handle. Maybe two, with the second for
   MySQL.
 * I had a site with ~600 blogs on a 768 megs of RAM vps for a while. Mind you, 
   only a certain percentage of those sites were active at any time (which is normal).
 *  Thread Starter [xrun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xrun/)
 * (@xrun)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/#post-2480745)
 * Good to know, thank you for exellent input as always.

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 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)
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 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-size/#post-2480745)
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