100 news items per month manageable in MODx ?

Hello,

I’m thinking of migrating one of my websites to MODx. It will generate some 100 news items per month in different categories.

My question is, is MODx up to the task of managing a website of this size?

Any problems in the Admin interface listing hundreds of news items?

You might want to read this thread : MODx limits on the number of documents for technical answers about MODx document limit.

To sum it up, it has to do with the current MODx architecture and the size of the [tt]cache/siteCache.idx.php[/tt] file. It’s generally admitted that MODx can handle up to 5000 documents. In you case, it means 50 months worth of news.

Now, cache mechanisms are going to change from 0.9.7 and on. It’s addressed by Jason on that same thread :

Quote from: OpenGeek at Oct 11, 2007, 07:57 PM

Just an additional note regarding some of the caching improvements that are coming in MODx 0.9.7 to address performance and scalability against a graph of volume a site’s content repository might consist of:

• More modular cache files, loaded on demand; config is separate from the document map, which is divided into contexts, scripts and content are separate, etc.
• More control over what parts get cached and which parts don’t; even how/where it gets cached. You can even disable caching entirely; however, the database load at that point would be tremendous, unless you had...
• Database result set caching to address database load in general, with support for memcached or your own custom cache implementations. Individual result sets can even be cached indefinitely, for a specified number of seconds, or excluded from the cache via the new xPDO-powered API.
• More granular ability to control caching on any kind of content element (i.e. chunk, snippet, TV, plugin, module, template, etc.) via tags or API, i.e. force TVs not to be cached.

But, that’s the challenge in developing any web application with an eye for performance and scalability; it’s a constant struggle to balance the two because they are, and will always be, at odds.

Now you have a better picture of what is possible and how it will be improved in the near future.
I hope this helps