TXP for larger sites

msantos · 2008-03-03 14:54:43

Hi everyone,

I have been following TXP already for some years and had it on my own blog,
currently i am thinking of using TXP for a larger site, portal style.

I know how flexible TXP is for theming and getting customized content, but my real question is,
can it handle large traffic and lots of content on the main page.

The kind of traffic and website, i am looking at is www.designtaxi.com and http://aigalosangeles.org/,
i also like this one http://www.cordoba.net/ .
i am not looking to copy these websites, because they are unique on their own and beauitful, but they have lots of content
and articles that over time makes the database big.

1. Will the system after some time running, get slow ? due to much querying ?
2. If i use several plugins, can it still be used for such a site ?

I am just worried about performance, the last benchmark i saw was in 2007, versus wordpress and another one, forgot the name.

Please suggest, thanks alot guys.
Marco

Last edited by msantos (2008-03-03 15:33:38)

Neko · 2008-03-03 16:09:21

msantos wrote:

The kind of traffic and website, i am looking at is www.designtaxi.com and http://aigalosangeles.org/,
i also like this one http://www.cordoba.net/ .

The first one has an Alexa rating similar to one of mines (which is not that great anyway, at its peak we had like 6-7000 users per day). So, if those numbers are reliable I guess TXP will run it without a itch. The only thing I should be worried is CPU usage, but you can easily employ a caching plug-in and see your site loading at light speed.

1. Will the system after some time running, get slow ? due to much querying ?

Caching can help you out. I use a lot asy_jpcache and works fine.

2. If i use several plugins, can it still be used for such a site ?

It depends on which plug-ins.

msantos · 2008-03-03 18:34:04

Neko, thanks alot.

So basically it means that for a load of 6~7000 user per day TXP can handle without a itch (not considering cpu usage),
it should be more than enough, thanks for the cache advice, i will look into asy_jpcache, which seems everybody is using it currently.

Cheers,
Marco

ruud · 2008-03-03 18:49:02

I’m using a standard TXP install for a website that gets between 7 and 10 thousand user sessions per day (alexa rating similar to designtaxi.com). 20 plugins installed. No caching at all. It even runs on a server that uses SuPHP, which is a lot slower than mod_php or fastCGI. No problem.

The amount of articles isn’t a problem. It’s not TXP that has to handle the queries, that’s handled by MySQL which can handle thousands of articles easily.

As Neko says, what does matter is which plugins you use. To be more precise: how efficient the plugin is written, how many queries it generates and how slow those queries are.

msantos · 2008-03-03 21:03:50

Ruud and Neko, i get it now, at the end if there is a problem then it would be a problem of the MySQL server bottleneck or some plugin-ins that generate extra queries to the database, i knew that TXP was well coded, since i had seen reviews on other sites and benchmarks against wordpress, i was just worried about the scalability of it.

Thanks guys, let me work on it and once its done i will keep you all posted.

Cheers,
Marco

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