Best practice - number of pages

[Jake Johnson]

Hi,

we are in the process of manually transferring several thousand folders and documents from our old document management system to Confluence Cloud.

We create pages for each folder and then drag and drop PDF files into the pages. Up till now we have created around 3000 pages and uploaded most likely around 10000 documents into them.

Loading of the space is slowing up fast and I'm afraid that the system will be unusable after we upload the rest (80% more).

Any suggestions on how we can better manage the documents?

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Confluence isn't a document store, it's a wiki.  Generally the best approach to getting other documents into it is to import them as pages, not attach monolithic files Confluence won't really work with.

Confluence can cope with lots of attachments, that won't be a problem for it, just clunky to use.  (It can struggle with very large files though, which is why we generally recommend not increasing the maximum file size)

For disk space on Cloud, it's not actually going to cause you problems.  There is a limit for standard subscriptions, but if you exceed it, nothing stops working, and you can carry on adding more.   Atlassian monitor usage and if you need more space, they will prompt you to upgrade to a subscription that has unlimited disk space.

[Jake Johnson]

Hi Nic,

thanks for the prompt answer!

I don't think the issue is with the attachments that have been attached to the pages but the number of pages itself. It takes forever for the browser to load.

The amount of data should not be an issue as we have the premium plan.

Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's the attachments, Confluence works fine with huge numbers of pages, that's what it's designed for.

[Jake Johnson]

OK - Thank you