How big of a site can nanoc handle?

[Jim Mendenhall]

About how many pages/items can one have in a nanoc site before it becomes impracticable to deal with or slows down? Could one make a site that has thousands of pages/posts/items?

[justin]

I have a site with ~3k items, and it currently takes a couple of
minutes to compile from scratch. Nanoc is faster on subsequent
compiles for most people.

Unfortunately, the way I built my site makes almost every page have a
dependency on almost every other page... this means that if I change
one thing, it has to recompile the whole site anyway :)

Assuming you don't do that, it's quite usable at several thousand items.

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[Denis Defreyne]

Hi Jim,

I believe static site generators are inherently limited in the maximum number of pages they can handle. This is because there always is a separate compilation step, and the time spent compiling increases at least linearly with the number of items a site has. A site with more than a few thousand items will likely become tiresome to maintain after some time.

Having said that, there are people who have nanoc sites with a few thousand items. nanoc is somewhat smart about recompilation (only recompile items that were modified since the last compilation), so that helps. There are a few roadmap items that will make smarter about what to recompile and when, which will bring incremental compilation times down quite a bit.

Regards

Denis

On 10 Mar 2012, at 17:08, Jim Mendenhall wrote:

> About how many pages/items can one have in a nanoc site before it becomes impracticable to deal with or slows down? Could one make a site that has thousands of pages/posts/items?
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