By luisprime on

Hi! I'd like to ask a super basic but very important question for me. I'm running a review website on WordPress and continuously expand it with new content. The problem is I observ the performance decline with every several pages I add. My question is for those who gave up WP for the Drupal: is there a noticeable difference in the page loading speed after the mentioned transition? In general, what are the pros/cons of both systems from your perspective? Please, answer only from your personal experience.

Thanks,

Luis

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RealityBitesYou commented

If speed is your only issue, Drupal with a cache doesn't have this performance decline. I have the feeling that wordpress with a cache wouldn't either. What you are doing with your site is a textbook example of a case where wordpress is adequate and upgrading to Drupal might not be necessary. Wordpress does support caching.

If you care about code quality and having a gigantic variety of add on modules, I'd definitely think about going there, but it sounds like what you are doing is pretty simple stuff so the expense of switching platforms might not be in your best interest, as long as you are patching wordpress, because in the past the wp team was -churning- out SQL vulnerabilities. Drupal uses prepared statements under the hood so SQL vulnerabilities are very rare as long as module developers are using the Drupal API for data access and aren't doing mysql_connect or whatever directly in their code.

I don't know what WP's recent security record is. They may have fixed their data access strategy.