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WordPress CMS for a large scale website, some questions

by gringoloco
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Hi everyone, I'm quite new to web design, only having created some websites as a teenager with FrontPage Express. But I do have basic knowledge on the matter.

I hear a lot of good about WordPress, and a friend of mine suggested using it.
I'm launching a website (not a blog) that I'm expecting to become quite large in 1-5 years, but I'm doubting it's usage as the CMS for a website with a daily userbase in the multiple millions.
I will have some custom functionality within the site that I cannot find from WordPress plugins.

What I would like to know is, are there any good reasons for not using WordPress for a large scale website?
And what would you guys recommend? I know there are a lot of CMS's out there, but I would like to hear many different opinions.
#cms #large #questions #scale #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    If your intent is to haul stuff around are you going to buy a truck or a sports car? the moment you say "I will have some custom functionality" is when you really need to look at all of your options ( and there are many ) and determine the best fit. in the end ALL of these options are spitting out html, its just a matter of what framework is going to be best for you and your needs.


    Originally Posted by gringoloco View Post

    Hi everyone, I'm quite new to web design, only having created some websites as a teenager with FrontPage Express. But I do have basic knowledge on the matter.

    I hear a lot of good about WordPress, and a friend of mine suggested using it.
    I'm launching a website (not a blog) that I'm expecting to become quite large in 1-5 years, but I'm doubting it's usage as the CMS for a website with a daily userbase in the multiple millions.
    I will have some custom functionality within the site that I cannot find from WordPress plugins.

    What I would like to know is, are there any good reasons for not using WordPress for a large scale website?
    And what would you guys recommend? I know there are a lot of CMS's out there, but I would like to hear many different opinions.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedailyalbum
    Build the site first. Use WordPress or whatever other solution you want. If you are able to grow your site to the point where it's not scaling to support millions of users, you can pay for a solution then.

    Sean
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  • Profile picture of the author chaotic squid
    Over 20% of all websites in the world use WordPress. Pretty sure if your site got to the point of millions of users you'd be fine. In fact, many large corporations use WordPress. Just see for yourself: https://wordpress.com/notable-users/

    However, there are other CMS options as well. Another one that comes to mind is Joomla.

    If you need custom functionality that you can't find in the WordPress plug-in database, then have one custom made. There, easily solved that problem for you.

    With having millions of users on your site, your main point of concern should be hosting and security. But again, there are many options out there (made for WordPress in mind) that can help you with that amount of traffic and give you the ability to scale safely.
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  • Profile picture of the author joomlafreaks
    Well, the choice of CMS more depends on the functionalities you are going to have. Wordpress is a good for Blog or some hobby sites. But if you thinking about scale and custom coding, nothing comes near to Joomla. WP is not flexible and Drupal is not easy to tame. Joomla just fits in between. Its easy to manage but at the same time its flexible to be scaled up.

    We have done many huge sites on Joomla, having 3K to 4K unique visitors per day. They run on their own VPS or dedicated servers. But I never heard any complain from them regarding the missing feature. We even made lots of custom components and module as per clients' requirements.

    So, my vote goes to Joomla !
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    • Profile picture of the author UMS
      Originally Posted by joomlafreaks View Post

      Wordpress is a good for Blog or some hobby sites. !
      You mean hobby sites used by CNN, Samsung, Sony, Ebay and The New York Times?
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      • Profile picture of the author Jane1
        Word press is seo friendly CMS to develop websites in a very few days. I have used and implemented it. It update automatically with new features whenever an new edition of it is launched.
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      • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
        Originally Posted by UMS View Post

        You mean hobby sites used by CNN, Samsung, Sony, Ebay and The New York Times?
        Yeah, I think those are the hobby sites he's talking about.

        I can't believe some of the stupid answers I'm seeing here. No wonder I've been avoiding this subforum.

        Not to mention it's a three-month old thread dredged up by a sig spammer.
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    • Profile picture of the author gurusurfer
      Originally Posted by joomlafreaks View Post

      Well, the choice of CMS more depends on the functionalities you are going to have. Wordpress is a good for Blog or some hobby sites. But if you thinking about scale and custom coding, nothing comes near to Joomla. WP is not flexible and Drupal is not easy to tame. Joomla just fits in between. Its easy to manage but at the same time its flexible to be scaled up.

      We have done many huge sites on Joomla, having 3K to 4K unique visitors per day. They run on their own VPS or dedicated servers. But I never heard any complain from them regarding the missing feature. We even made lots of custom components and module as per clients' requirements.

      So, my vote goes to Joomla !

      I hear this untrue old saying so many times from Joomla advocates, but please tell me, what can Joomla do that wordpress can't do?
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  • Profile picture of the author totalprocessing.net
    There are several large scales sites that use wordpress like techcrunch, searchengineland, american express open forum. You should have no problems
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  • Profile picture of the author Itera Research
    If you have already tested the market and your product fits it, I would suggest you not to use any of the existing CMSes. They are limited to a certain functionality, like WP for blog, Magento for eCommerce, Joomla for social networks. Of course they may be boosted by plugins and custom inserts, however you will never get perfect performance. It is similar to the pic
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  • Profile picture of the author bazboy247
    Here are a few big websites that use WP

    The New York times
    The Wall Street Journal Law Blog
    BBC America
    The Official Star Wars Blog
    Sony Music

    To name but a few

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