NiT on Wordpress?
So, apparently Nashville Is Talking is moving from Movable Type to Wordpress. I can’t say for sure that this is a bad idea, but it surely smells.. Movable Type would seem at a glance to be much more scalable than Wordpress. Movable Type pushes static HTML around, whereas Wordpress is entirely PHP/MySQL driven, which is infinitely slower. I’m concerned that with NiT’s performance problems in the past even with Movable Type, that this is going to be a serious detriment to their site. You can alleviate a lot of the load from the dynamic nature of Wordpress by implementing rigorous MySQL query caching, installing WP-Cache, and installing a PHP caching accelerator like eaccelerator (and I certainly hope they are doing these things), but still, I find myself wondering about this particular move.
Does NiT’s webmaster perchance read this blog? I’d be curious to hear their thoughts.
No, I’m not NIT’s webmaster, but when you state that the PHP/MySQL combination is “infinitely slower”, you are sorely mistaken. Most likely, their webhost server IS the culprit. If I can render a page using PHP/MySQL in under 0.03 seconds on my host, then, why can’t it work in theirs? Just some food for thought… ;)
Yeah, see, Chris, you’re all wrong because it’s not INFINITELY slower. It’s just FINITELY slower.
Generating pages each time (especially without caching them) is going to be a performance lose. Maybe unpopular websites can afford to do this, or sites with huge load-balancing server clusters backing them up. But mid-size sites have to keep this in mind, especially if they may experience periodic rushes and thus performance hits. (As with NiT.)
I don’t know what host you’re specifically referring to, or the page being generated, but you do know, Empresa Peruana, that your anecdotal evidence of 0.03 seconds isn’t really a useful statistic for, like, anything?
–Kynn