Capacity of the Serendipity Blog

[maria]

I'm very lost in this question.
We want to start using serendipity globally with a lot of information, with a mass work every day, so, I need to be sure, that the tool is robust and with the capacity enough to complaint with our requirements.
For exemple:
Is there a limit of categories?
Is there a limit of information in each post?
Is there a limit in the size of the attachments sended by e-mail?
Is there a limit of postings in each category?
......
Is someone thinking in other limits?

Thanks very much!! This issue is very important to us before launching the tool for all.
With all the best,

Maria

[yellowled]

Is someone thinking in other limits?

I think (but I'd wait for Garvin to confirm this ), technically this can only be limited by your server setup (i.e. the database used). I also think you would do some serious groundwork in exploring the performance limits of a s9y-powered site if you do what you seem to have in mind

However, some of the limits you mention raise other questions in my humble opinion: There may not be a technical limit to the number of categories, but is it really useful in terms of usability to have as many categories as possible? There may also be no technical limitation to the length of a post, but most people writing very long blog entries do in fact very often split them up into a series of articles in order to not strain the interest of their visitors too much.

Just my 2 cents ...

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

YL is right; technically there's a limit of 2147483647 categories and entries ("INT(11)"). The performance impacts of this depend on the DB you use and its capacities/configuration.

The limit of data per post is by default limited to 65kb. A browser does not allow more information in a single textarea input field. You can work around that by straightly inserting into the database, or as YL mentioned split entries into multiple entries.

The limit of attachments is controlled by your server upload storage size and PHP's memory_limit.

HTH,
Garvin

[maria]

Thanks a lot!!
Very specific answer!!
You're the best!
Maria