[thelist] Max capacity of WordPress

[Jeremy Weiss]

My first question was that once you start getting larger # of users, how
will the admin pages look? Will they become horribly unusable?

-jeremy

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jeffrey Barke <
jeffrey.barke at themechanism.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Eduardo. Not sure what I mean by "manage" myself, but I had a
> client ask this exact question today. Theoretically, I know the limit
> is the datatype, and I can't see any reason why WP couldn't manage
> 10,000+ users, but has anyone actually worked with WP when it has
> 10,000+ users? Is there any appreciable difference?
>
> Thanks again,
> Jeffrey
>
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Eduardo Kienetz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Jeffrey Barke
> > <jeffrey.barke at themechanism.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone know how many users WordPress can manage? 2,000? 10,000?
> >> More?
> >
> > It really depends of what you mean by 'manage'. The user id datatype
> > is defined as bigint(20) unsigned so it can handle a maximum user id
> > of 18446744073709551615.
> >
> > Which seems to be quite a lot. So, you probably would hit other
> > limitations before this.
> >
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