Comments on: WordPress: Destroyer of CPU’s?

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:25:01 +0000

Oh and David, there are ugly errors strewn all over your right sidebar. You might want to fix that.

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:21:53 +0000

WordPress is a resource hog, there is no doubt about it. Yet I continue to develop any and all of my sites using WordPress because of its ease of use, its SEO benefits, and its customizability and extendability thanks to the thousand of free plugins and themes developed by the WordPress community.

If WordPress developers could somehow integrate caching into the core of WordPress, then its competitors would probably shut up and instead focus their energies on something that is worth using.

By: jonson roth

jonson roth — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:57:17 +0000

Right, but we’re talking Windows server, not Linux. I doubt the same issues would result on a Linux server.

By: Matt Craven

Matt Craven — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:25:18 +0000

Large sites require both proper db optimization / db server config and the use of something like wp-cache to function problem

I had issue on blog herald when we owned it once the daily PVs passed the 50-60k mark

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:25:04 +0000

What blows your mind about using Drupal instead? I don’t want to presume your opinion on it.

By: muchio

muchio — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:26:46 +0000

I think you missed the point of Jeff’s article a little. He says, that 20 calls to database on every page load for “naked” WP install is way too much. And of course, caching in WP core nowadays is a must feature.
[quote]People are suggesting things like Drupal which is a pain to install and configure.[/quote]
How old is your experience with Drupal installation? One year? More? Man, you should consider refreshing your knowledge.

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:14:15 +0000

So if I try to run .NET on my Mac, I should complain about it running slow? PHP and MySQL were developed for Linux but made to work on IIS. You can’t possibly fault WordPress when there are some MONSTER sites running it with no issues at all.