General question: where are the bottlenecks in Kirby right now? How can we as a community improve the performance and reduce the response time? Ideas?

After lots of use cases with Kirby I can say that bottlenecks happen when you put a lot (like a couple hundred or even more than thousand) subpages in a single folder. That is when scanning the list of folders gets messy. Other than that Kirby can handle A LOT of content if it’s structured more tree…

Literally just pulled the site off the MT Grid last week and got the boost you describe. Really good to know!

I’m really glad to hear that! May I ask where you moved your site?

I put the Kirby sites onto a shared plan on Dreamhost, and I’m going to look into Webfaction at some point. (But that’s just two sites or so, and not, like, any kind of diss on MT or endorsement of DH or request for a bunch of hosting people to try to sell me on anything. :wink:

Just curious: do you run http://nimbus-lighting.com with or without caching? Edit: As I got a reply from Bastian over email I might as well post his answer below: The nimbus site is running on an SSD and we combine it with Memcache for caching.

if you need trustworthy shared SSD hosting, I’d go for webfaction (not sponsored :))

[image] bastianallgeier: After lots of use cases with Kirby I can say that bottlenecks happen when you put a lot (like a couple hundred or even more than thousand) subpages in a single folder. That is when scanning the list of folders gets messy. @bastianallgeier : Right now I’m trying to mig…

What are the more content-intensive tasks, where you need to query a lot of content to make indexes, search, etc.? Maybe you should have a separate database or cache or search index where a copy of your content lives (updated periodically), and query that? For search, you could perhaps use Solr (or…

Would it make sense to organise the articles under subfolders organized by date? 2015/ 01/ .../ 2016/ 01/

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Maybe a thread with SSD hoster recommendations is a good idea?
Haven’t found any (trustworthy) managed/webspace with SSD yet. Only pricey servers and ‘MySQL on SSD only’.

Breaking content directory down by year/month to improve performance

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