[wp-hackers] 10K Users?

[John Blackbourn]

On 31 January 2012 21:29, Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in a similar position. But my concern is more about the number of
> usermeta rows I'll be adding.
>
> For each user I've got at least 15extra fields of data I need to store
> (some boolean, some text).

If you have 10,000 users you're still only talking about 150,000 rows
which is nothing. If you're on cheap hosting then you'll run into
concurrency problems (the number of simultaneous requests MySQL can
handle) long before you'll run into speed problems.