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I don't think MediaWiki or Wordpress are good examples of how PHP scales. Those are the two examples of extremely bloated pieces of software that require a lot
by shuzchen 14y ago
I don't think MediaWiki or Wordpress are good examples of how PHP scales. Those are the two examples of extremely bloated pieces of software that require a lot of hackage to get to scale. I've done deployments of those on mid sized VPS'es and it's always a pain getting it responsive while still able to hold a good number of concurrent connections.
The only way anyone gets Wordpress to scale is to put caching in front of it. But now the heavy lifting is being done by memcache or varnish, not by anything engineered into Wordpress or PHP.
- owyn 14y agoThe only way to get mediawiki to scale is to do the same. :)
- jmathai 14y agoAny sort of scaling is a hack (not always bad). Good luck if you expect to scale to Wikipedia or Wordpress(.com) levels without using external tools such as Memcache and Varnish.
- ericingram 14y agoAny language or framework can be tough to scale. Didn't twitter find this out in the early days?