There are some good, expected and bad updates with new premium plans came with Wix Studio. I will not going to talk about good and expected updates because they are already good so we don’t need to talk about these updates but I will just share them.
Good
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New Media Storage Limits
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New Backend Containers
Already Needed/Expected
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New Backend Requests Limits p/min
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New Backend Request Timeouts
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New Scheduled Jobs
And there are some bad updated…
Bad
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CMS Items Limits
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Monthly Data Limits
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Secret Limits
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Dashboard Page Limits (Acceptable if Plus gets unlimited too)
I don’t know how many people remember NYC Wix DevCon. In this DevCon CEO of Wix said: “How do you build something like this” while showing Airbnb at the screen. Watch here.
And long story short he was telling us that they want to convert Wix into something even apps/brands like Airbnb can use it to create their complex and big projects.
I was planning to build something that much complex at Wix with my team and we are still planning how we will develop that. But this update is a big question for us and I’m pretty sure it’s also a big question and red flag for any startup.
Now I’m asking. Really? Will we build complex projects with item based CMS limits which is also very low (I mean like quite low). And extra layer of limiting data requests.
Even if you know a bit of developing something you know everything is created with data. Without data your app/brand or anything you create is basically nothing.
If you want to market Wix as a platform to build complex projects and something for startups. Don’t do it like that or don’t market Wix as a platform for developers and startups to build complex projects. I don’t care about SPIs or any other feature we have in Wix while data is limited.
Let me go one by one.
Item Based CMS Storage Limits
This is the funniest update. It’s funny because it’s weird and does not make any sense for any developer. This is directly blocking what we were about to build with Wix. It’s not because of our DB design it’s because of this weird limit.
I have a test site with almost 70K items in it’s collections. And every collection has at least 10 fields. And space it’s using is only 27Mb. 10K items will not pass even 5Mb. Why do you limit it that much. Item based limiting is already so stupid like just remove it with GB.
We had 10GB limit and now what 10K items. This is why it’s funny. Every plan must have at least 1GB of collection storage space. I know how to connect my site to Google Cloud DB services but I don’t want to because why I need to pay extra to Google Cloud while Wix has it’s own collections. And if I’m going to use 3rd party services and pay them extra every time why do we even use Wix?
Monthly Data Request Limits
This is another big problem we have right now. We had 3000 request/min for read operations and 1500 request/min for write operations to collections. Which was upgradeable and it was enough.
Now we have higher limits for p/min only for read and lower limits for write p/min and another extra limit for month.
You can see the new limits above.
We have very high read limits p/min and very low write limits until elite plan p/min. And another layer of limiting which is monthly limits.
Even if minute limits is enough monthly limits might not be enough. Update, insert, remove you can do 50K times these operations every month.
Let’s say you have 500 daily users in your web app. And every user creates 5 write requests (add, update, remove actions) to your collections. It means 2500 write requests/day. And 75K/month. Which means you can’t host it on Wix with new Plus plan. You will need to upgrade your plan to Elite which is 149€/m and you are still in danger because you have only 25K more in the month. And then what Enterprise? 
no thanks.
Monthly limits must be removed.
Read limits p/min can be lower.
Write limits p/min must be higher at least for Plus plan.
Secret Limits
I don’t know why did you even limit this that much. In Elite plan it’s okay 64 would be enough for most projects even more than enough. But 10 secrets for Plus plan may not be enough and 3 also low for other plans but let’s say it’s okay.
But Plus plan must have more.
Dashboard Page Limits
In my case I don’t even use this feature and I don’t care about this at all even if you remove that feature like non of my business. But I know many people do use this feature especially for their clients.
Limiting Dashboard pages is okay but Plus plan should have more of that 10 pages might not be enough sometimes. Youn can’t explain your client to you need to pay 149/m to have more dashboard pages. (More than 2 times what will pay in Plus)
Long story short we can’t build complex and big projects with these data platform limits even Partners can’t create small projects because of some of these limits:
- CMS Storage Limits Must Switch Back to GB with at Least 1GB limit on any plan.
- Monthly Data Request Limits Must be Removed
- Write Requests p/min Must Be Changed for Plus Plan
- Read Requests p/min Can be Lower for All Plans
- Secret Limits for Plus Plan Must Change
- Dashboard Page Limits for Plus Plan Should Change
Wix should find a solution to these limits. Especially CMS/Data limits are very problematic. Not only for startups also for Partners who build sites in Wix for their clients.
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