Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPresstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·4 months agoSeeing how much CPU and memory is using a single WordPress blog, i wonder how much it will cost to host half a billion WordPress blogs
minus-squareBelatedPeacock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoMy guess is it scales a lot more efficiently the more you add. Still probably costs a lot though.
minus-squarerealharo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoMost of them probably get 0 visits or close to it.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI mean when I made one such blog, the default install did not have a single index in the database? Like even a small dataset took seconds to process. People love to shit on PHP, and I also love to shit on WordPress, but performance was definitely possible to easily improve.
Seeing how much CPU and memory is using a single WordPress blog, i wonder how much it will cost to host half a billion WordPress blogs
My guess is it scales a lot more efficiently the more you add. Still probably costs a lot though.
Most of them probably get 0 visits or close to it.
I mean when I made one such blog, the default install did not have a single index in the database? Like even a small dataset took seconds to process.
People love to shit on PHP, and I also love to shit on WordPress, but performance was definitely possible to easily improve.