My site is only a few months old and I'm moving to a cloud server as we speak. Everyone seems to think that my Wordpress site is large and it doesn't seem very large, file wise, to me. My site files are 100MB. I have 101 published articles, with images for each article. My short-term goal is 500 articles and my long term goal is 5,000 articles+. In other words, it's only going to get bigger (is this a bad thing?). How large is your Wordpress site and do you intend on adding more files/articles to the site?
I'm owning several WordPress sites including some with over 1,000 posts. They're still performing great on a shared hosting package. So that isn't a bad thing at all .
Your issues probably aren't the number of pages you have (5000 isn't that many, no matter how daunting it may feel) but in the amount of traffic you will generate. A quiet but voluminous blog about aquarium snails won't even be noticed on shared hosting. A small blog on something momentous that is linked to by credible news agencies and gets a flood of traffic would cripple a shared host. Lets say you had a blog with details of each of the routes on the Malaysian Airline pilot's home flight simulator. Right now, that's a hot topic and if the BBC, CNN etc linked to your site it would be overwhelmed.
i have website that contain around 80 posts, and around 602 visitors , every thing is fine, just focus to provide the right content ..
Hi from Eddie P I also have a number of WP sites, and am adding articles to a couple of them on a daily basis. I have not seen any limit posted on how many articles you can have on a WP blog -- you might want to check with WP and see what they say. One very important thing though is how fast your site loads when someone visits it. I gone to sites and they seem to take forever to load. Most people won't wait and they'll move on to something else if this is the case. I'd like to take a look at your site if you'd send me a private message with the url. Cheers!
I have 230 posts with pictures, several big .pdfs and .docs and several dozen big photos -- everything weighs 260mb and works fine. If you feel something is wrong with speed, the fault might be not in provider, but in Wordpress configuration -- like too many plugins or some badly-developed third-party theme
I've run (and still run) a variety of sites of varying sizes. It really depends how you consider "size" and, as SarahK said, the traffic. For example, I have a site that has about 31,000 posts on it but weighs less than 200Mb because there are no images. The biggest has about 5,000 posts but takes up over 7Gb - because it's almost entirely images. To make shared hosting fall over and lie bleeding on the floor, you don't need that much traffic. I've managed to knock over a basic VPS setup, when one of my sites appeared on German TV and the traffic went completely mental for a few days. Now things are settled down, that site gets about 200k hits a month and there's no problem - but if it were on shared hosting, it would be so slow as to be useless. Provided a site maintains a decent response time, I see no problem with it growing into the tens or hundreds of gigs. I doubt any of mine will reach that point, but it might happen!
Tiny right now with around 30-50 pages. I'm planning on building it up but am slightly awe struck at how many pages some of the users above have. Just out of curiosity, how long did it take you to build up 31,000 posts?
That's mostly the automated news feed, so it builds itself. Took a couple of months. The one with just over 5,000 posts is all hand-selected or user-submitted images - that took about 2 years!
Site in my sig has roughly 10,000 pages. Instead of "article-based", mine is more "image-based" as I provide these for licensing although I do have a blog on the site which I hope to build with articles I write.
Have you tried one of the cache plugins? They can really improve performance if your blog is a straightforward text/images content blog. However, be a little more cautious if you are using e-commerce plugins.
if you want decrease your file's size , you can remove unused themes & unused plugins. you can decrease quality of pictures,buy many PC's softwares , like: PearlMountain Image Resizer Pro for pics: you can use jpeg ,(87 quality) png is good for small pics
My new blog is really small right now because I just started. A few years back I ran a blog with over 1k pictures and over 100+ posts. The file size of that blog was over 1gb. The blog was doing really good and like a idiot I killed it because I wanted to turn it into a forum. After I made it a forum the website died out in a month. Greg
That's exactly what I am doing but under a different name more relevant to the content. I just hope magic strikes twice. P.S. I am using all brand new content because the old content is almost 3 years old now. Greg