[TYPO3] [Typo3] How large of website can typo3 handle?

Michael Scharkow mscharkow at gmx.net
Thu Jan 5 09:20:55 CET 2006


Ries van Twisk wrote:

> Also at some point page generation is going to be come a problem.
> - When you have 20.000 pages and page generation time is long (at my 
> site +5 seconds)

How come that page generating is *that* long? Sounds like infinitely 
recursive template settings or sth. like that ;)

The site's URL would be nice for looking at it.

> - collapsing en uncollpasing page trees is going to be  prob at some 
> point, loading a complete big tree...and rendering the icons in your 
> browser when page tree is big.

The BE is slow anyway, but most probably you don't have too many BE 
users, and you can expect them to be more forgiving about performance.

> I know about the cache... but we frequently need to delete the cache due 
> to the fact that we update our rotating banner
> and change items throughout the whole site at once, not just a single page.

How frequently? Apart from the absurdly long page rendering problem, if 
you are really heavily frequented, caching pays off even if you clear 
the cache every 5 minutes or so because it is a few times more effective 
than rendering the whole stuff anew.

> So for my right now 20.000 is maximum for a single server.....

How do you manage 20.000 real content pages is the more interesting 
question for me. Even with 200 BE users that's still a lot to maintain.

Greetings,
Michael



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