[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64845: Real time collaboration should be off by default or at the very least it should be much more limited

[WordPress Trac]

#64845: Real time collaboration should be off by default or at the very least it
should be much more limited
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 Reporter:  sc0ttkclark  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new
  (bug)                  |
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  7.0
Component:  Posts, Post  |     Version:  trunk
  Types                  |
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  administration, performance,
                         |  sustainability
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Comment (by peterwilsoncc):

 Thank you to the representatives of various hosting companies for sharing
 your concerns.

 **To avoid burying the lede:** With the number of HTTP requests and
 database writes required for the default set up, I agree that it's best to
 turn ''RTC off by default regardless of the site configuration''.

 On a fresh install with no collaborators, just opening Hello World in my
 browser resulted in 60 requests a minute totaling 110-120K. It's a lot of
 traffic for a feature that has limited use for a single author install.

 For sites with two collaborators in a post, based on the numbers above the
 server will receive 480 HTTP requests totaling about 900K per minute. For
 five or ten buck hosting that's a lot of traffic.

 When RTC was enabled by default, the honest truth is that I added a plugin
 to my personal site to
 [https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/d1db09cb4524e077be75b6f0749eddd1
 disable RTC during the upgrade process]. For a single author blog, my site
 is wildly over engineered and could handle the traffic, but I didn't want
 to increase the load on my server without due consideration at a later
 date.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64845#comment:8>
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