User registration and WP scale issues?

  • I’m considering requiring registration on my site in order to post comments. I wonder if anyone has advice or experience doing this with relatively high-traffic sites.

    Does having a large number of users registered and using the site affect performance or bang unduly on MySQL? Any best practices I should know about before flipping on registration?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Based on the tags you listed with your posts it seems you are considering the registration requirement because of spam.
    It will not help.
    Use some good plugins like Bad Behavior and SpamKarma – get the latest version of them.

    Thread Starter merlinmann

    (@merlinmann)

    Good eye, moshu.

    I’m actually having great luck on SK2 for spam (I *loved* bad behavior but it was _creaming_ MySQL when a story got Dugg/BoingBoinged).

    To tell the truth, I’d like a way to ensure that users are providing a working and reachable email address. I think the comment authenticator (https://skippy.net/download/plugins/commentauth/) is incompatible with the latest WP, but something like that would be fine too.

    I do like the idea of letting people join up in general, though — just that I’m already pushing the good graces of my dedicated server and its generous host, so I have to be choosy about increasing CPU load.

    Thanks for the response!

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