Hi All, I like to know whether WordPress is server resource hungry for large sites. Anyone here managing a very high traffic site using WordPress ? I heard wp-cache module helps a bit in improving performance, but does it really help to load the pages faster when traffic is high ? (Lets say - 1000 users online) I heard negative things that WordPress is server resource hungry. But I saw a very big site http://www.techcrunch.com/ (Alexa traffic rank of: 1784) uses WordPress. I am wondering how they are managing... Any comments / suggestions are appreciated from WordPress experts...
Read these Tips to Reduce Wordpress High Server Usage Problems + Wordpress Tweaks I have around 4000 uniques daily on this blog though nothing compared to techcrunch but still i have never seen much load, it depends on the plugins basically which run numerous queries.
And are you using WP Super Cache module on your site ? And does this module change the URL structure ? If yes, then where will the traffic from Search Engines go ? (As Search Engines might have already cached the old URLs)