Newbie question

  • I’m new to WordPress but not to programming. (2 part question)

    (1) I have used DotNetNuke for 2 websites and I was very disappointed with the speed. The problem is that it is not only memory intensive, but being asp.net it has to recompile whenever the site is idle for more than 20 minutes — which can take up to 30 sec to a minute depending on the performance of the server, amount of memory, size of website and bandwidth. But as long as there is someone on hitting the site before the 20 minute idle time is up it’s pretty fast since the pages are cached.

    My question is does WordPress, being a CMS, also have the shortcoming of being slow?

    (2) DotNetNuke can have several websites (multiple portals) in the same installation on the same account (shared server). Does WordPress have this ability?

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  • WordPress is normally very fast after the first time you visit a site. The size of your database can slow things down if you have a big blog or lots of archives. There are ways around it though.

    Best,
    Ray

    Thread Starter dpdoug

    (@dpdoug)

    What are the ways around it? It seems that the main problem with DotNetNuke is the size of the database also.

    What I do is set up an exact copy of my WordPress front end with a different database that stores only the archives. When I move an item to archive, it goes over to the “parallel universe” as it were. It’s a bit of work to do that at the moment but I’ll find the time one day to write a plugin to do it all for me. Some day.

    Best,
    Ray

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