Scalability considerations
Gravity Forms scales primarily through your WordPress hosting environment, since form processing and entry storage both run on your site's own server and database -- high submission volume on underpowered hosting is a genuine, common bottleneck, not a Gravity Forms limitation per se.
Practical detail
As entry count grows, database table size for form entries can meaningfully affect wp-admin performance on shared or budget hosting, making periodic entry archiving or export-and-purge a practical maintenance task rather than optional housekeeping. Multi-page forms with Conditional Logic help manage complexity for the end user as forms grow, but each additional page and conditional rule does add processing overhead worth testing under real load rather than assuming it's negligible.
Actionable considerations
- Match hosting resources to expected submission volume, since form processing and storage both run on your own server and database.
- Archive or export-and-purge old entries periodically on high-volume forms, since entry table growth can affect wp-admin performance over time.
- Test multi-page forms with Conditional Logic under realistic load before assuming added complexity has negligible performance impact.