Scalability Of CMS

The type of scalability is undeniably critical when implementing a web content management system and certainly a topic worthy of much discussion.

Scalability

Most sites attract far more audience members than contributors. Can you afford to post content that will attract twice as many users as you have today? Will your publishing engine crank out enough responses to keep everyone satisfied?

Each feature you add to your site impacts use. Content attracts attention in varying ways. Some extremely compelling work, such as broadcasts of breaking news events, will keep users on for long periods. Jokes may cycle through far more people, but only once each and for tiny fractions of time. Examine how your next change will impact requests, and plan for capacity to handle it. Basically learn how to read your site logs to observe requests.

In many content management systems, you'll find a setting to limit the maximum number of concurrent users. Why? As more people user your site, it keeps getting slower for everyone. Each additional request interrupts and slows responses to others. Eventually, nobody will get answers, so nobody benefits. Placing a cap on the count of concurrent users denies access to excess audience members while adequately serving those you have room for. This cap allocates scarce processing and memory resources to give your publishing system enough to satisfy part of your audience. Consider your core audience and provision your site's publishing tools accordingly along with site optimization and lowering queries to allow faster access methods and loading times.

Ideally, your or your publishing team has enough resources to add capacity to your publishing system. In that case, invest and capture them all. If you or your team lacks the time and money to cover all the traffic you'll get, you need to compromise. Defining your target audience is one way to make a trade-off.

Your target audience consists of the people you care most about reaching. If you succeed in covering them, your team may earn enough to expand the target audience. Remember that you may possess resources to cover only a portion of your target audience. That's OK. At least you'll satisfy those people.

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