Title: WP Server Load Testing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP Server Load Testing

 *  [EWB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewb/)
 * (@ewb)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-server-load-testing/)
 * Are there any server load testing data available for a default install of WP?
   I ask because one of our university’s sys admins believes it might be a hog and
   is preparing a set of tests to find out. We are currently considering deploying
   WP for a number of sites and he is worried about server load.

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-server-load-testing/#post-457872)
 * It’s as much of a hog as any heavily-featured PHP application. 😉
 * You want an opcode cache (APC, etc), likely then some caching daemon (memcached),
   WP-Cache2 if you want to cache static pages, or the WP internal object cache 
   mechanism if you want to cache frequently-hit queries. Then you want MySQL configured
   with a decent query cache itself, and you want a goodly amount of RAM in the 
   box.
 * Folks over at the WPMU forums can probably talk more about how to optimize for
   very large WPMU installations…
 * -d
 *  Thread Starter [EWB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewb/)
 * (@ewb)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-server-load-testing/#post-457890)
 * Thanks. Have you ever come across any comparative data – i.e. WP versus other
   PHP apps?

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