Does anybody have any experience with large websites powered by WSN scripts, let's say with more than 50 000 objects (links, images, articles...) and more than 1000 active users? I'm trying to figure out whether it is realistic to run such a system on a 'normal' server hardware without using any special software / hardware for speeding up web applications.
My http://forums.philosophyforums.com has 500,000+ objects and runs well on my $50 VPS -- RAM is the most important thing there, I have 1.5 GB guaranteed now. Things were painfully slow on my old VPS where I had just 384 MB. The actual number of people online at any one time there isn't that many though, if you have hundreds of people on in the space of 10 minutes you may see performance degrade.
http://www.prep4usmle.com (not my site) is busier and I believe he said it runs on a fairly powerful dedicated server.
If you have server load problems, consider whether you can use guest caching or restrict spiders to important pages using the options on the SEO page. Also take a careful look at your larger toplists and consider if they can be done as statically generated every 12 hours instead of instant.
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Does anybody have any experience with large websites powered by WSN scripts, let's say with more than 50 000 objects (links, images, articles...) and more than 1000 active users? I'm trying to figure out whether it is realistic to run such a system on a 'normal' server hardware without using any special software / hardware for speeding up web applications.
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My http://forums.philosophyforums.com has 500,000+ objects and runs well on my $50 VPS -- RAM is the most important thing there, I have 1.5 GB guaranteed now. Things were painfully slow on my old VPS where I had just 384 MB. The actual number of people online at any one time there isn't that many though, if you have hundreds of people on in the space of 10 minutes you may see performance degrade.
http://www.prep4usmle.com (not my site) is busier and I believe he said it runs on a fairly powerful dedicated server.
If you have server load problems, consider whether you can use guest caching or restrict spiders to important pages using the options on the SEO page. Also take a careful look at your larger toplists and consider if they can be done as statically generated every 12 hours instead of instant.