[wp-hackers] Forum post: Huge server hits

[Brad Fults]

This seems like a good opportunity for WP to partner with some large hosting 
companies that would offer a WP install + wp-cache + hardware that can 
handle "a load of up to X", giving WP a referral fee for the customer.

It would be much better to answer the question Podz exemplified with "If you 
go with our hosting partner, X, WordPress will handle your situation for Y 
amount of dollars per month."

Helping customers and making money at the same time.

-- 
Brad Fults
NeatBox

On 7/12/05, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/12/05, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
> > Someone posts to the forums and says "I'm going to create a website for
> > someone famous and I expect 100,000 hits a day. Can WP handle this ?"
> 
> The truth about weaintskeerd.com <http://weaintskeerd.com> (I forgot the 
> url) is that /their
> hosting package/ couldn't handle the load, no matter what blogging
> software they used, even if they were serving a static HTML file.
> Jason's scenario was for 5e6 hits per day. That's 1/20th of 10 million
> hits.
> 
> It would be good to have some kind of benchmark done so we could say,
> "on a dedicated 2GHz Xeon with 4GB RAM, Apache 2, [exact specs],
> WordPress has been shown to handle a XXkb page with XXXkb of graphics
> at XXXXX hits per day with peak loads of XXXX." It wouldn't be an
> end-all for these questions but it would be very valuable for anyone
> serious about setting up a high-traffic site like that.
> 
> Andy
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