Excessive revisions can slow your database down. I always thought that was their reasoning, not storage costs. But just limiting the number of revisions to 100 mostly avoids your database exploding anyway (assuming you have a “reasonable” number of posts).
I initially enjoyed your passionate language, but I feel like ‘cancer’ might be a bit too expressive to communicate your extremely valid point in a palatable way. The expressiveness is of course understandable, but for such a large audience, I feel it necessary to communicate my opinion about this here.
I do agree that WP Engine an companies like it are very much just strip mining WordPress and rent-seeking on top of that for their business model. So, I am not here to defend them.
Hell, I had an old client on this platform for a technical optimization project. I decided to make the difficult decision to switch hosts thinking I’d *maybe* squeeze out another 5% on Lighthouse page speed reporting. Instead, it was a massive 15% baseline improvement. I was kind of shocked, especially given how concerned they are with “optimization.”
This revision story certainly appears reflective of this. So either way, thank you for making the community as a whole aware of this.
Excessive revisions can slow your database down. I always thought that was their reasoning, not storage costs. But just limiting the number of revisions to 100 mostly avoids your database exploding anyway (assuming you have a “reasonable” number of posts).
Hi Matt,
I initially enjoyed your passionate language, but I feel like ‘cancer’ might be a bit too expressive to communicate your extremely valid point in a palatable way. The expressiveness is of course understandable, but for such a large audience, I feel it necessary to communicate my opinion about this here.
I do agree that WP Engine an companies like it are very much just strip mining WordPress and rent-seeking on top of that for their business model. So, I am not here to defend them.
Hell, I had an old client on this platform for a technical optimization project. I decided to make the difficult decision to switch hosts thinking I’d *maybe* squeeze out another 5% on Lighthouse page speed reporting. Instead, it was a massive 15% baseline improvement. I was kind of shocked, especially given how concerned they are with “optimization.”
This revision story certainly appears reflective of this. So either way, thank you for making the community as a whole aware of this.
—Ian