Amount of posts in wordpress

I was wondering if anyone has had a wordpress blog with about 25,000 entries in it. I am working on something and was wondering if anyone ever had wordpress with that many entries and had any problems with performance.

 

performance won't be a problem for you. Wordpress was created for such occasions in mind.

 

Thanks for your comments!

 

Well, I know people who have reported some.

Mainly, if you are in a shared host with limited CPU resources and have A LOT of visits, but also when you have a SUPER demand in a small short amount of time. You can avoid these problems by installing the wp-cache plug in and by not using too many plug ins.

But this is only for REALLY high traffic sites.

 

I would expect if you have more than 25,000 posts, you're not running on a shared hosting plan. With over 25,000 posts of unique content, I'd expect it to be high traffic volumes and definitely on a dedicated or VPS. This may not be the case and then yes, you would run into some performance problems because you're demanding too much for your alotted amount, but if you're on a dedicated server, you won't have a problem.

 

I am on a shared hosting plan (reseller account) with plenty of disk space and bandwidth. I just wasn't sure what the performance would be, or would my hosting provider (hostgator) complain about the traffic.

 

What I said above is usualy more a problem on shared servers, but also applies to dedicated ones.

If you speak spanish that's an explanation on how on a high demanding moment someone ended up renaming the index to .html and updating by hand. And he is also on a dedicated server (server only hosts 16 webs). However, I must say this a special case.

Worpress is really good, but unfortunatelly not perfect.

 

Just for the information of anyone who could read this post but also the original. This also makes m think if WP is ready or not for big big sites.

I found by reading a weblog that Wordpress 2.0 limites the number of categories to show on the admin side to 100. This means that once you have more, you wont be able to manage them.

Quick fix: go to the wp-admin folde an edit admin-functions.php. Around line 510 you'll need to modify the function return_categories_list() and change the default number of categories to be shown.