How many entries could the Craft database hold before it slows down? I'm pulling in some RSS feeds using Feed Me (https://github.com/engram-design/FeedMe) and turning those in entries automatically using a cron job.

You can imagine that producing a lot of entries over time ;) Is there a known limit for entries in the Craft database?

And is there perhaps a way to automatically delete entries after x amount of time?

Thanks, Bob
It's a bit of a loaded question, but generally it's going to depend more on environmental limitations than anything with Craft itself.

If you're on a shared host along with 200 other accounts using the same MySQL server, then you'll likely notice slowdowns sooner than later.

If you're on a decent host with plenty of memory/disk/CPU available, then we've seen sites with 500k users/entries/assets/etc. running along just fine.


  And is there perhaps a way to automatically delete entries after x amount of time?


As Andrew pointed out in the comments, you could write a simple plugin that exposes a controller action that gets all entries over a certain age and deletes them.  Then you'd setup a CRON job to call that controller endpoint on whatever schedule you want.