Hi,

In my opinion this all depends on two things:

• Architecture decisions. Make sure to pre-generate as much content as possible and cache it somehow (varnish!)
• Server resources. For sure this won't work with a single machine, but with the right hardware in the right configuration, shouldn't be a problem

I built some live news website a year, or two ago. We had about 10.000 users online at the very same time, consuming our news articles (those were pushed to all users instantly). I learned a lot during that time. This was such a huge project, even static files (pictures mostly) became a problem. Lighttpd/Nginx just crashed in standard configuration. Talking 3-5Gbit/s of bandwidth here.

Hi, I don't think you'll find any php framework that can handle that kind of load uncached, but Laravel will definitely not have worse performance than Wordpress.

Usually you'll want the cache as close to the user as possible, which means:

• Use a CDN for as much as possible. Some sites (like etsy.com) actually point their main domain to their CDN.
• Use something like Varnish for everything else. Even fresh content can usually be cached for at least a few seconds.
• The last resort is caching db requests.

I work on a site network that has similar load and we use Laravel without any performance problems.

Thanks, I will publish my experiences here. The project has been already started.

Thanks in advance, it would be really nice if you would share some optimization insights and decisions you will make during the process. Good luck! ;)

Did the project work? And it was made in Laravel? I'd create an acount because I am very curious about it.

Thanks.