What is the maximum post_max_size limit is recommended for WordPress?

Question

I have a WordPess site hosted on Amazon EC2 server, I have some files which have size upto 50-60 MB.

So is keeping the post_max_size 64M is recommended? Or maximum how much is recommended?

Answer 1

Its depend on server settings but there is one thing always remember while setting upload_max_filesize <= post_max_size if you are not doing that will be throws an error.

For example, Your configuration allows user to upload 50MB file but you post_max_size is 20MB.That mean you request doesn't fullfill because you can post only 20MB for single request.

Recommandations

• To upload large files, post_max_size value must be larger than upload_max_filesize.
• memory_limit should be larger than post_max_size

Guide line of PHP offical site

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.post-max-size