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Textpattern and high volume use
I’ve recommended Textpattern to build a website for a competition involving the upcoming Formula One season. When the results of any race are posted, the site will have as many as 1100 people visiting the site. Has anyone else used Textpattern at this volume? I just want to be sure it won’t fall over.
TIA,
John Anderson
Soaring Penguin Ltd.
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#2 2007-01-14 00:46:28
- zem
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Re: Textpattern and high volume use
1100 people per second, minute, hour, day?
There are lots of variables here. The complexity of your page templates and the resulting queries is a big factor. Also whether you’re using a dedicated server that’s designed for the job, or discount shared hosting.
On reasonable quality shared hosting I’ve benchmarked stock Textpattern sites at around 4-6 page views per second without any caching or special preparation. If your peak load is likely to reach or exceed that you’ll want to investigate caching, dedicated hardware and template optimizations. Sky’s the limit.
Our benchmarks show Textpattern is typically about twice as fast as Wordpress and other similar solutions, for what it’s worth.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
Last edited by zem (2007-01-14 00:48:21)
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Re: Textpattern and high volume use
I use it for a NASCAR site and while it doesn’t consistently get a huge amount of visitors, it does have spikes of about 1000 visits in an hour on a busy day. Usually it’s about half that during the season, right now, it’s not even close to that since it’s the off season.
Ren
Last edited by RenJonsin (2007-01-15 03:11:35)
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#4 2007-01-16 01:17:14
- zem
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Re: Textpattern and high volume use
1000 page views an hour is one every 3.6 seconds on average, well within Textpattern’s comfortable bounds under normal circumstances. Of course that’s dependant on the variables mentioned above, and you should try a http load tester to be certain.
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