Does anyone have experience running Couch as a high-traffic blog?
The usual suspects would obviously be WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, etc...

I am personally running a blog on Ghost (https://ghost.org/) on a subdomain and I am thinking
about unifying the blog with my main website under one roof / platform using Couch.

The question is if Couch is able to handle this reliably also in terms of SEO?

Would appreciate your views / experience.

[cheesypoof]

Your definition of high-traffic might differ from that of mine. Couch should largely be a non-issue though as long as you enable caching in the config file; the performance should be similar to the serving of static files.

SEO is mostly up to you and your implementation; Couch shouldn't be the limiting factor...

Some standard views are provided - docs/concepts/views.html. If you want to customize the URL structure, give the custom routes feature a read - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8981.

Thanks @cheesypoof

I was not aware that Couch has a caching feature.

Has anyone actually tried a stress-test on the Couch-engine?

Hi JD,
As cheesypoof said, with cache enabled Couch behaves 99% of time like a full-static pages. I've thoroughly tested the speed of cached\uncached Couch using 8 hosting platforms and VPS servers via http://loadimpact.com .

For example, the result for DigitalOcean VPS for 5$ is like:
Uncached Couch response for 200 VUs access: 750ms-1.2s
Cached Couch response for 200 VUs access: 630ms-800ms

The testing page was http://pravobezlimit.ru/blog/ - a regular blog-list page. That means if you have a blog with 2000 uniques per day, they'll never notice any freezes even with cache disabled (if you have a nice hosting). But if more, I suggest to always turn cache on and use VPS with 2Gb of RAM minimum. Of course, you should also optimize your frontend, compress scripts and images, etc.
The results are better than Wordpress'es or Joomla's, but it's so strange to compare Couch with them. They have no magic inside, so why smb could ever use them)

@Musman thanks for your response.

Your site on http://pravobezlimit.ru/blog/ is loading really slow.

Yep,
this website is on $1.5/month web hosting now, and sometimes this hosting becomes slow... It's the client's demand. If the popularity will be high I suppose it will be transferred to VPS.
Also the hosting's server is in Moscow, so your ping may be very long. For example, I have a very long ping for websites located in Australia and USA, faster ping for Europe and incredible fast for Russian.
But the results that I shared above are not heavily ping-dependent, because DigitalOcean VPS was located in Netherlands, and LoadImpact used it's own servers to test speed.