Assuming that I have 5,000 to 10,000 uniques a day, what would eat resources more? A blog like wordpress or a forum like phpbb/smf? And if possible why? thanks...
Yousif claims that its wordpress then john.fisher says its forums. Could you explain further why? thanks
Well, to be honest. It's from user experience. I've come across a number of websites that load faster through a forum rather then word press. I've compared this with many users (popularity of site) too, so it's not that. Forums don't use web 2.0 languages really, that's another advantage. Web 2.0 is pushing out code that is slow. An XML Http request to me, is slower than simply working with an iFrame. Forums use the best compression when extracting and integrating the data incoming/outgoing via their databases. It's cache optimization is amazing. Not to mention, forums in general w/ out naming any brand have been around longer and so there has been more work done to them than Word press.
forums get higher activity and usually data structure (in this case, relationship for tables in database) is more complex than blog. Also forums gets more writes to database than blogs in general speaking. so ..
That's true, but the fashion in which they process the information is beautifully designed. There's more support in the community for forums rather then WordPress, both in documentation and in usage.
I say a forum (is heavier) because visitors are able to be active and post additional content which will use DB connection to pull vs a blog where you only post an article and maybe 5 to 10 people might leave a comment at most. Also, older versions of WP and PHPBB are very slow and take up too many resources and have security issues that can overload your resources. I would recommend the latest versions if you go with either solution.