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

Hi!

MySQL scales rather well. I would say that the number of pages or their size is more or less irrelevant: That stuff all is in MySQL and MySQL will perform more or less the same - as long as you do not start saving hundreds of gigabytes in it. Before you start getting problems with MySQL, you will have other bottlenecks, which are way more severe:

Running MediaWiki on your local PC requires you to run the server on your local PC and as far as I can tell that is slow. Ordinary PCs are not made for this usecase and - although this does work - they won't perform well: Servers usually have a fast CPU and - even more important - enormous amounts of RAM. So if you want the system to become faster, that is what you should look at.

If you want to use the wiki professionally there will be no way around this: Install it on a real server!