[wp-hackers] (scalability) many wp on one server without choking it?

Tara Star tellme at climbtothestars.org
Tue Nov 23 10:31:39 UTC 2004


Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>>is anybody (apart from me) running an important number of WP installs on 
>>one server?
> 
> 
> My Web host does not permit many SQL databases and I imagine many others
> don't. Do you host it all on a PC at home? 

no, dedicated box: http://ovh.com/en/dedie/web/superplan.html

> I think I should point out that it's not only the hardware you use, but
> also the network it's in that counts.

no issue with the network

>>And to the devs out there -- how realistic do you think it is to run 40 
>>or more wp installs on one server without bringing it down? (it's a 4x 
>>xeon 550 with 1GB of ram) Or is WP really too ressource-intensive
> 
> 
> It's definitely possible to have as many tables as you like lying
> around. You can start with the 40 and just upgrade the hardware when it
> gets too slow.

I'm not worried about the number of tables -- I'm worried that it's very 
slow, and overloads the server, and I'm stuck between people who say 
that it's inevitable with wp because it's such a ressource-hog, and 
others who say that even with a dynamic wp site, there's no way I should 
be able to take down the server by checking 60 (dynamic) RSS feeds in 
quick succession.



Steph



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