Hosting a WordPress site with 200K posts?

Hello guys, Advice and recommendations are needed from the experts here
I have a WordPress website that has 200K+ posts. I want to upgrade the hosting so the website will run more smoothly and faster..

PageSpeed Insights says "Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed"

I am having issues indexing a lot of posts, stats from GSC.

Have you tried to add a CDN like BunnyCDN to offload your server? It an serve some 95-99% of your cached files instead of the server?

odayangel said:

Hello guys, Advice and recommendations are needed from the experts here
I have a WordPress website that has 200K+ posts. I want to upgrade the hosting so the website will run more smoothly and faster..

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judging alone from your GSC, your userbase is still relatively small but with room to grow.

Before recommendations
Got a few questions
- Do you know sys admin to run your own VPS or do you need more of a managed hosting to do all the techy side for you?
- What is the budget you are leaning towards, $ per monthly
- I am assuming from the lack of mention, this doesn't need to be offshore hosting either.

odayangel said:

PageSpeed Insights says "Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed"

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At the bottom, it should say something like
Diagnose performance issues
Then it starts listing all the potential issues you can fix or things that are not good that is being graded low performance.
For example using

Here you can see, the biggest issue this site has is Total Blocking Time.
What they can do to improve is
- reduce JS execution time by optimizing it or removing js that doesn't need to be run every refresh/page or even at all
- minimizing main-thread work
etcetc
another good site that list them in more detail that can be used as reference would be https://gtmetrix.com/

odayangel said:

I am having issues indexing a lot of posts, stats from GSC.
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Lastly, indexing issues.
without knowing the reasons that google has labeled on them, we wouldn't know exactly why it isn't being indexed at all.
Has google seen/crawled them and chose to ignore it. Is it because of thin content, are crawlers being blocked, incorrect robots, bad canonical tagging etcetc

I would suggest using a dedicated server to improve the overall performance of the site. It'll cost you around $40 a month and you can host unlimited number of websites under a single server.

Techpreneur said:

I would suggest using a dedicated server to improve the overall performance of the site. It'll cost you around $40 a month and you can host unlimited number of websites under a single server.

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Yeah thats what I did right now, I had a VPS from namecheap, just bought the dedicated from them.

RoiBox said:

Have you tried to add a CDN like BunnyCDN to offload your server? It an serve some 95-99% of your cached files instead of the server?

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No, I'll try it! Thank you!

xReminisce said:

judging alone from your GSC, your userbase is still relatively small but with room to grow.

Before recommendations
Got a few questions
- Do you know sys admin to run your own VPS or do you need more of a managed hosting to do all the techy side for you?
- What is the budget you are leaning towards, $ per monthly
- I am assuming from the lack of mention, this doesn't need to be offshore hosting either.

At the bottom, it should say something like
Diagnose performance issues
Then it starts listing all the potential issues you can fix or things that are not good that is being graded low performance.
For example using
View attachment 294596
Here you can see, the biggest issue this site has is Total Blocking Time.
What they can do to improve is
- reduce JS execution time by optimizing it or removing js that doesn't need to be run every refresh/page or even at all
- minimizing main-thread work
etcetc
another good site that list them in more detail that can be used as reference would be https://gtmetrix.com/


Lastly, indexing issues.
without knowing the reasons that google has labeled on them, we wouldn't know exactly why it isn't being indexed at all.
Has google seen/crawled them and chose to ignore it. Is it because of thin content, are crawlers being blocked, incorrect robots, bad canonical tagging etcetc

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https://gtmetrix.com/ tests only desktop version of the site, and the majority of visitors nowdays come from mobile devices, remember that.
@odayangel you can solve the blocking time issues with wp-rocket or perfmatters. Good luck and wish you sucess.

You don't need an dedicated server, you need expertise, knowledge.

You can run this on a good 100$ VPS / year.

All you need is the knowledge how to make it stable and load fast.

If you don't want to learn how to do, my personal advice would be hire someone on fiverr that can do exactly this;

- Mimic your design in AstroJS (it's a SSG)
- Show the content using WordPress API.

200k pages, wordpress without one million plugins ? its easy. Get a 5 euro vps from hetzner, setup nginx properly, and no problem. As long as you dont use one million shitty plugins, and you have a proper template. as long as your site is coded properly, you can easily have 1-5k visitors daily on a cheap VPS with nginx....

Upgrading your hosting is essential with that volume of posts. But don't forget to also optimize your website architecture and content. I once dealt with a client who had a similar issue. After restructuring the sitemap and focusing on quality backlinks, the indexing rate improved significantly. Consider checking your internal link structure too.

papanoel666 said:

https://gtmetrix.com/ tests only desktop version of the site, and the majority of visitors nowdays come from mobile devices, remember that.
@odayangel you can solve the blocking time issues with wp-rocket or perfmatters. Good luck and wish you sucess.

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Thank you very much.

Kr1m said:

You don't need an dedicated server, you need expertise, knowledge.

You can run this on a good 100$ VPS / year.

All you need is the knowledge how to make it stable and load fast.

If you don't want to learn how to do, my personal advice would be hire someone on fiverr that can do exactly this;

- Mimic your design in AstroJS (it's a SSG)
- Show the content using WordPress API.

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It is hard to tell who is a real expert that would solve this, money/budget aint the issue, if you have a recommendation I would like to hear about it!

ExobiT said:

200k pages, wordpress without one million plugins ? its easy. Get a 5 euro vps from hetzner, setup nginx properly, and no problem. As long as you dont use one million shitty plugins, and you have a proper template. as long as your site is coded properly, you can easily have 1-5k visitors daily on a cheap VPS with nginx....

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maxmayer said:

Upgrading your hosting is essential with that volume of posts. But don't forget to also optimize your website architecture and content. I once dealt with a client who had a similar issue. After restructuring the sitemap and focusing on quality backlinks, the indexing rate improved significantly. Consider checking your internal link structure too.

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Thank you, is there a plugin that will auto place internal links on all my posts?

Yes, it is possible to host a WordPress site with 200K posts. However, it is recommended to use a hosting service that offers plenty of storage, RAM, and bandwidth to ensure that the site runs smoothly.