How does this CMS scale up? How many pages can I power?

[svedish]

Hi all,

First of all, I'm totally new to this CMS so I'm still in the process of studying it a little bit, but in general very well done. At first sight it looks great and simple! The idea behind it is fantastic in my opinion because most of the CMS out there are so incredibly (and uselessly) slow! This is a killer for usability and even SEO in my opinion.

This CMS looks perfect to power simple websites, but I'm even considering using it to power a website that should scale up to several hundred pages and I was wondering how you guys think this CMS scales up? In other words up to how many pages can I power with this system without getting problems and maintaining the great loading speeds I'm seeing right now while I test it on my server?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

[Connie]

you can do a search here, there is a similar posting and there are sites in the wild with around 500 pages

[svedish]

Thanks for your answer Connie. I will search for the similar posting, even though it would be kind if you could post the link to that topic. As for the websites that are out there in the wild, It's good to hear that there are also 500 pages websites run with GetSimple. The question would be if the size of these websites is in any way affecting the speed of the system? It would be interesting for me to find out before starting such a venture.

Thanks in advance for any answers and suggestions.

[ccagle8]

i cant find the post - but talk to mikeH, he is the guy that created that massive website

[Connie]

The question would be if the size of these websites is in any way affecting the speed of the system?

I don't think so, you have to compare reading XML and reading from Database and as far as I understand, 500 is not a big number for that

I have 235 pages at one of my sites (www.zweiterblick.de) and the only problem is that there many photogaleries and some of them load all photos before starting, so that needs time

at www.get-simple.de we have 120 pages

I think if you have a welldefined structure of pages and use hierarchical menues (i18N for example), you will not run in problems

Here are the links:

http://get-simple.info/forum/post/18297/#p18297

http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/3003/...getsimple/

[svedish]

Thanks very much for your answers guys. I will have a chance to look into this a bit later on today. I will have another question, but I guess I'll open a different topic for that one because it's unrelated to the size of the website.

Thanks again.

[Connie]

you are welcome! And yes, each topic in a new post, that's the best!

Cheers, Connie