# Possible to create a news site with pics and videos

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [24.Февраль.2019 01:53:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928 "2019-02-24T01:53:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [24.Февраль.2019 04:30:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/4 "2019-02-24T04:30:11Z")

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The problem and challenge here is that WordPress is excellent at serving reasonably static pages out to tens of thousands of users while using moderate server resources. Discourse on the other hand will require significantly more in the way of server capacity to serve the same purpose. Add in the time it will take to customise Discourse to behave like a publishing front-end, it’s just not the right tool for the job.

You’re going to be much better off serving your content from a content management system, fronted by a cache, and using Discourse for the community element.

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