Thread:Project:Support desk/Needed Recommendations of Number of Pages/Contents MediaWiki Handles with respect to Local Server Load ?/reply (3)

In addition to the post of 88.130.118.79: The more important point is not the space the pages need (or the revisions, MediaWiki saves differences of pages, not the entire page again (when you edit e.g.), so it's not easy to say "a page has 200 kb", if the page has an amount of revisions it can reach a bigger space level with only one sentence, as a page with only one revision and a bigger text.

The other point is (to come back to my "The more important point"), that you need hardware and a very good connection to deliver the content to your users. It's much more important: When your wiki is visited by thousands of people (just an example), then a simple home PC isn't enough to provide your users a good performance :)