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Although I have my own server(s) so size isn't really limited, but what is the base install size of C5 as I've setup as site on 500mb to test and intalled 3 - 4 add-ons and it's already near 250mb.. so to get this to run smoothly will need at least a VPS or Single sever...now I'm a savy developer and and can design sites with the smallest file sizes in CSS, HTML etc.. but near 250mb I find this (BIG) is there a how to skinny C5 out?

I'm developing a C5 site for testing with HTML5, CSS3, Flash XML and a few plugin's but no way it should be 250mb....?
 
whimsmedia replied on at Permalink Reply
whimsmedia
Don't know about a ready-made how to but if you find one we'd like to know as well. If not maybe we can put one together.

A fresh C5 installation with no add-ons is just under 38 megs for us.

The largest chunks are:
- 3rd party libraries of which Zend takes up more than 1/3 of the whole C5 package at 13.7 megs
- javascript stuff of which TinyMCE is the biggest at 2.9 megs
- images of which the icons folder is the biggest at 3.2 megs

I'd say stripping out Zend and sharing it between C5 deployments might be a good place to start.

Also there's a filetypes folder inside the icons folder. That's something I could see myself doing without.
osgmal replied on at Permalink Reply
IS there a howto on sharing Library files? I think that make sense to have just one set of Library files on a server.
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
yes, search centralizing or centralized setups in the how-tos. lots of
material there.

best wishes

Franz Maruna
CEO - concrete5.org
http://about.me/frz
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
You've likely got a huge cache you're moving around that you don't need to,
or a lot of backup core dumps.

Concrete5 should be about 40MB, which is big for a bunch of PHP scripts,
but hey - half a million lines of code. deal.

best wishes

Franz Maruna
CEO - concrete5.org
http://about.me/frz
osgmal replied on at Permalink Reply
Yep deleted a load of the cache and a few obsolete files thanks, I think you have a Great CMS, just couldn't work out why it was sooooooooooo Chunky when I'd done very little in it... guess i shouldn't have been looking at it through my beer googles at the time of writing...