How Scalable Phoca Gallery is?

[meet_gaurang]

Hi,

I have just started using Phoca Gallery. It is very nice.

I have already tested it with around 1700 images. Still working very smoothly.

1) What maximum number of images can be uploaded to Phoca without performance hurt?

2) What maximum number of concurrent requests can be served without performance hurt?

Each software has its own limitations. So, I am just curious to know this.

Thank you very much in advance.

[Jan]

Hi, in fact no idea, it depends mostly on server performance.

there are two parts:

categories and images

displaying images use the pagination so, e.g. only 20 items can be loaded per page, so there can be a lot of images in your database

displaying categories uses pagination too, but because of tree creating all categories must be loaded, so here the count of categories is more limited as count of images.

Jan

[bdoes]

Hi, number of photos looks to be limitless... I now have over 16000photos and all is working great...

However, I think the maximum number of categories is 228?? Give or take a couple...

Phoca Gallery Categories Page stops working (error 500) once the number of categories goes above 230 or so... Now, I end up having to use phpAdmin to modify the new categories. Jan, I'm sending you the error I get to your info[at] email.

Hopefully I'm wrong and that you can fix my categories page problem...

thx.

[Jan]

Hi, as written many times, depends on the server performance and on the built in tree,

yes the pagination is used, so you can user a lot of images you want, everytime the pagination is used and only e.g. 20 images are loaded.

But categories, it is a common problem, if you have unlimited count of levels, you need to build the tree, for building it, you need to load all categories and set the tree, then you can use pagination.

I have tested over 700 categories, but this all depends on the levels and server performance

Jan