Masquerade just posted this in the forums and I thought it was AMAZING and maybe worthy of inclusion in the article. You'll have to ask him where and how he got his facts, though:

In case anyone was wondering, the current max number of posts you can have on a webserver with a 32-bit processor, its:

340282366920938463463374607431768211456

Wow! I wouldn't even know where to begin to start putting commas in. ;-) Lorelle 03:53, 15 Jul 2005 (UTC)

This number is 2^128. I'm guessing it's a limitation of MySQL's ability to store database record pointers in 4 DWORDs (4 * 2^32). I'm guessing.

But yeah, that's pretty cool. I'm not sure it's going to relate to traffic directly - although I'm sure if you blogged that many posts it's going to take a long time for MySQL to find any particular entry. That and you should really spend some time away from the computer. --Ringmaster 04:57, 15 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Can we move this to live?

Can we make this page live, there hasn't been any activity on it for a while and I think it's in a pretty good state, atleast for starters anyway. Wakeless 06:58, 25 Jul 2005 (UTC)

My guess is we'd want some reliable figures in it; i.e. it is nice to learn about "high traffic", but putting gigabyte figures in alone is not enough. We run a blog here that has about 35GB this month and runs fine even without getting slashdotted, but then again there is a number of podcasted audio in a recently added category "podcast" which does directly relate to the traffic caused ;). PHP traffic alone is about 3 gigabyte/month. Is that "high traffic"? Readers would probably want something to tell them which category they might fall into. Anyway, WP-Cache is nice and does its job as staticize-cache does, but as sysadmin I would never rely on a plug-in for what can be done on the server side with a squid-cache. --Raddaqii 19:02, 18 Dec 2005 (GMT)

Benchmarks?

Anyone have a list of becnhmark tests?

Reads more like a blog post?

This article sounds more like a blog post than a Codex article. I'll try to cut out some of the long words and rhetorical questions while still keeping the basic meaning of the section intact. Is this okay with everyone? Tell me if I get rid of something really important.
--Jimmyali 23:24, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Should we add WordPress VIP information?

There's some information at the bottom of the page, under "new hosting". Should we recommend WordPress VIP as an option? There are others we may want to consider (like WP Engine), but to my knowledge, WordPress VIP is the only official WordPress hosting. Styledoesmatter 11:23, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Copyedit

I picked this up in the copyedit queue, and I've just given it a once-over to improve readability / clarity / get rid of odd sentence constructions etc.

I've done my level best to keep the content structurally and semantically the same as it was before, but let me know if I've inadvertently removed anything important.

Andy Walton 15:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)