Thread:Talk:MediaWiki/How many Wiki pages can Media Wiki hande?/reply (3)

Hi!

I am running a wiki with around that number of pages: 4.600 pages, 1.500 uploaded files, around 2.000 users. The system is running nicely. It is located on a server which hosts 5 virtual machines and the wiki server is in one of them. (Apart from that the virtual machine hosts one other website, which is fairly well visited and on the whole system several other websites are running.) The wiki has around 120.000 views per day and - compared to that number - a few edits. A PHP accelerator is running and MySQL is configured for the wiki to work properly (wiki database size is around 700MB). Response times are fast, search as well. No problems so far.

So no constraints, which would be a problem. But one thing: You might want to have a certain level of control over the server: If you e.g. are on shared hosting, that number of page views might be a problem. You also might have issues, because you maybe are not allowed to open the necessary number of connections to MySQL (so that your users would only get an error-500-page). Other customizations include the size of uploaded files or the execution time in PHP. Having shell access to the wiki server also is a great help. When you reach a certain size and/or certain number of hits, you might want to be able to set these things the way you need them (and not the way the hoster gives it to you).