Nemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agoTumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPresstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1355arrow-down16
arrow-up1349arrow-down1external-linkTumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPresstechcrunch.comNemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-square@Wispy2891@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish29•7 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-square@BelatedPeacock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•7 months agoMy guess is it scales a lot more efficiently the more you add. Still probably costs a lot though.
minus-square@realharo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months agoMost of them probably get 0 visits or close to it.
minus-square@msage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 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.