My question is, is it a good idea to use docker for a big woocommerce website (more than 100k products)? Or will this incur a noticable performance cost compared to running wordpress straight on the VPS (without containerization)?
My question is, is it a good idea to use docker for a big woocommerce website (more than 100k products)? Or will this incur a noticable performance cost compared to running wordpress straight on the VPS (without containerization)?
Share Improve this question edited Aug 5, 2020 at 18:11 margaeor asked Aug 5, 2020 at 16:53 margaeormargaeor 32 bronze badges 4- You need to ask your question in a way that you can mark an answer as factually correct for all people with that question, this seems more like a discussion. – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 17:48
- Otherwise, there are lots of huge sites built around containerised hosting, what you're asking does not have a simple strict yes/no answer – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 17:52
- @TomJNowel I rephrashed the question so that somebody can provide a simple answer as "yes, it is a good idea" or "no, it isn't a good idea" – margaeor Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 18:13
- I don't think either is the answer, tbh it just doesn't make that much of a difference wether you use it or not, it isn't as important as you might think. The choice to use or not use docker is not in the top 100 considerations of a WP sites performance – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 19:30
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Reset to default 1My question is, is it a good idea to use docker for a big woocommerce website (more than 100k products)? Or will this incur a noticable performance cost compared to running wordpress straight on the VPS (without containerization)?
It won't make much difference, nothing you will notice. It's not even in the top 50 things you should be concerned with for performance.
running wordpress straight on the VPS (without containerization)?
A VPS doesn't run on bare metal, the V stands for Virtual, so it'll either be a Virtual Machine, or a container of some sort.
At 100k+ items of content, I would be more concerned with avoiding problematic queries and setting up object cache, perhaps some varnish style equivalent.