Wordpress for large sites?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by fakestar, Jul 3, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    Recently i decided to move from Geeklog (CMS) to Wordpress.
    Geeklog is nice, but i really miss some features easily found in wordpress using some plugins.


    My site is getting 6~7k unique visitors and 30k pageviews a day, tons of bandwidth.

    It is mostly images/video/game stuff, a media site. 1500 posts.


    So i changed the database from geeklog to wordpress, make a new layout, etc etc.


    I put this online and for my surprise, with 60, 70 users online, the server couldn't take it.
    And it is a dedicated server. Is not shared.



    "Wordpress cannot connect do database" etc etc...



    I tried to use the plugin WP-cache and a lot of pages were recorded at the wp cache folder,
    but it didn't solved.


    So, Wordpress have this problem with medium/large sites?

    I read that some big sites are using wordpress... i can't understand why this problem occurred to me.

    Any help or suggestion will be appreciated.
     
    fakestar, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  2. bochgoch

    bochgoch Peon

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    As you've found WP is very database heavy ... one thing to check is the database server configuration with your host, it may be restricting the number of connections / queries per day, leading to your problem.
     
    bochgoch, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  3. fakestar

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    I have root access to server, i need to edit my.ini or my.cf right?
    Which number you think is good in this case?

    Thanks for your response.
     
    fakestar, Jul 3, 2007 IP