CPU usage with native WordPress galleries

  • I’ve had to abandon the photo gallery plugin I was using because it was using an inordinate amount of my shared hosted server’s CPU capacity (upwards of 12%).

    One of the alternatives I am considering is using WordPress’ native image galleries instead, but before I go through the trouble of doing that, I’m wondering if anyone has experience using that for a lot of photos and whether that would also use a lot of CPU processing?

    My site currently has 25,000 photos, all resized to be 850×600 pixels, around 65 to 100 kb each. There’s a photo gallery for each blog post with anywhere from 10 to 200 photos per gallery, but averaging around 75 per gallery. I’m hoping to scale up to 75,000 to 100,000 photos within the next three or four years.

    Does anyone have any insights on whether WordPress’ native photo galleries can handle that without using too much CPU processing?

    Thank you!

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  • All I know is that images use resource to load and bandwidth when you have downloads or hotlinks..

    Try out Cloudflare CDN, it will simply cache the images and save you up bandwidth and CPU resources.. I kept getting my site suspended by the host due to high CPU usage, until I set up a free Cloudflare pack..

    Try it out ( cloudflare.com ) maybe temporary solution until you find a fix, or switch to a VPS hosting..

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