Scaling — Dr. Phil Style
Like any web application, WordPress can be hard to scale. Get traffic spike from a successful social media campaign or getting on TechCrunch and your server is almost guaranteed to go down — at exactly the worst time to fail!
We’ve built one of the most scalable WordPress architectures on Earth.
We move 100,000,000 hits per day through our system, so even with a significant traffic spike you can be sure we will handle it. Our customers have hit 20/20, Dr. Phil, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Mashable, and Daring Fireball, and never skipped a beat. We’ve seen individual sites surge to 2,500 hits per second and we served the traffic without any loss in page-load speed.
Most of our scalability comes from our custom-built architecture. Some comes from our integrated, full-managed, no-extra-charge CDN wherein your static content is served by data centers all around the world, delivered from the one closest to the requesting browser.
And, if you know you’re going to be especially slammed, we have temporary measures we can put in place to make your site even more scalable and distributed (at the cost of taking longer for new changes to display).
