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This will be a huge infrastructure simplification for 95%+ of Wordpress site. I have to imagine shared web hosts will love this.

• unity1001 4y ago
  No. They wont do anything with it. The compatibility concerns with existing 60,000+ plugins are more important than whatever performance improvement sqlite could bring. This is especially less important in shared hosting where cpu is cheap and shared. Adding a 5-10% performance on average is not something that would rationalize changing entire infra.
• quags 4y ago
  For shared it’s important to not suddenly break sites, even during security updates. That’s were you get hardened php and keeping php 5 still alive on many shared hosts. I can see this as just being something added to new Wordpress installs but backwards compatability will always be kept for the current shared hosting. However it does give an opening for a new comer on the block who starts fresh with a simplified set up since they can start fresh on with a simpler infrastructure.