Can wordpress handle 10,000,000 blog posts?

People keep saying that wordpress cannot handle up 100k blog posts.

Otherwise your site gonna crash, slow and bloating.

I have one project that I plan to generate probably up to 1m posts combined with translated posts into various languages, its gonna end up with millions of posts.

Do you think wordpress can handle it?
Any experience?

Server specs: Proc AMD EPYC 7502p / 128GB RAM / 4tb NVME storage

of course wp can handle more than 100k or even millions of posts. its not how wp handles it, its more baout the resources your server has and how much traffic you get.
with the specs of your server it shouldn't be a problem. bottleneck could be mysql, so make sure to optimize it.

Yes wordpess can handle 10m posts, real question is can a hosting or server handle it?

Wordpress is scalable enough to handle that many posts

The question is more of an issue of HARDWARE/HOSTING instead of platform

Also, your project description begs the following questions:

- is the information competitive with existing SERP competitor content?
- is the content intended to get people to take action?
- how much keyword targeting or theme targeting have you put into your content system?

[Mod edit] ofcourse wordpress is unlimited, but not if you got 1GB Ram server.

Yes, WordPress Will handle it for sure. It's unlimited.

i have now 400K + post in wordpress

It's not WP, but the sql/database limitations if any. Another consideration is moving it in the future. It can be an issue with SSH timeouts from one host to another. I had one site with 5 figures in posts, had the new host expert (really experienced Linux person) attempt to move it and it kept failing- so wherever you host it, be sure you are happy with them and have the server that can handle it and don't expect to move. Not sure of back up plug in's limits like the popular WP All In One Migration has a file size limitation. I know that I ran out of inodes, that was why I had to move to another host.

With so many posts, i would rather make a static html. With a simple custom bot.

This wont need a mysql connection and no php. This makes it quicker.

nazmulfeni4 said:

i have now 400K + post in wordpress

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Really?

Its all about server space. You need to have a seperate DB for handling such large quantity of posts. Cloud will be best for that.

Yes, WP easily handle 100K post, its depended on hosting, I think your hosting can handle minimum 500K posts.

It can handle it - 100k goes with ease, mostly. At 500k-1mio you will need a good server and - wich becomes very important - a really well optimized DB. WPs Querrys are not really optimized for handling those amounts.
But tbh - Wordpress is not build for these. I changed to a self-written system, thats handling 25k Domains with ~300k sites each now at ~5% of server performance, using a FastAPI (Python) and MongoDB Setup for the backend. noSQL shines, when it comes to mostly static stuff, because you can reduce the querry count to basicly one per user.

Your host is the one who deals with traffic. Wordpress is built to scale infinitely

If you want to do 10 000 000 posts, I assume you have AI bot.
So it's good to get some work and make your bot to generate static HTML pages.
Even better.

WP is just a program it will just display the posts or perform some tasks....its the server capacity that you should be concerned

I will not advice you to use wp for large volumes, nor mysql DB. Go with static stuff custom written.

It can handle it but you need a very good host for this.

TheoreticallyBr said:

Your host is the one who deals with traffic. Wordpress is built to scale infinitely

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Yeah, but mysql isn't. It's not really build for scalability. Can be done, but is a pain in the ass, compared to noSQL DBs.

Lukmat said:

If you want to do 10 000 000 posts, I assume you have AI bot.
So it's good to get some work and make your bot to generate static HTML pages.
Even better.

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Statics are more easy and performant - but storrage will become an issue there, at one point.
And you can run in "Too many open files" Server Errors.
Been there allready =D