[harry4039]

If both of them scale fine given that we have a strong server setup I’m happy 🙂

[harry4039]

@henrywright @aapollo i’m not worried about hosting. only about the general capability of WP and BP to be able to handle truck loads of comments.

[harry4039]

Linode hasn’t messed up so far. We have a server admin, which you probably need if you work with Linode.

[harry4039]

@aapollo: thanks for your response.

So you’re saying that the entire WordPress.com platform and all its users’ sites are running on WPEngine hosting? We were on their business plan for a launch earlier this year and our site got completely fried. Really bad experience and WPEngine support sucked really, really bad. We were forced to switch and are now on Linode.

Using Disqus for comments doesn’t really solve our problem because it’s not native and very difficult if not impossible to embed fully into all the BuddyPress features as far as I know.

@djpaul: Would love to hear your opinion on this.

[harry4039]

@djpaul: Thanks a lot for your response!

[harry4039]

Forgot to tag @djpaul

@henrywright alright, so you think it’s only a server performance issue. not a database cluttering issue?

[harry4039]

Hey Paul,

thanks a million for your answer.

The community of the site actually already exists, which means that thousands of users will be using the platform from day one. So we’d like to choose a commenting solution that’s as stable and sustainable as possible from day one on. Also, since the platform will be fully integrated with achievements and also video courses it would be pretty hard to switch the commenting solution later.

So, are you suggesting that in case of performance issues there might be the need to switch from native WP comments to something else? Or are you saying performance issues could be overcome by making adjustments to the native commenting functionality?

Hope to hear form you 🙂

Harry