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Madison House Presents<\/a> is a WordPress website that specializes in organizing and selling tickets for world-class music festivals, tours, and live events. Given their highly anticipated events like the Electric Forest<\/a> festival, they demand massive scalability during times of high traffic.<\/p>\n

To ensure the most amount of revenue during ticket sales, Market House must maintain optimal uptime. They decided to switch to WP Engine to preserve peak performance even during times of traffic spikes.<\/p>\n

Other than serious uptime, Madison House enjoys the usability and simplicity of WordPress:<\/p>\n

“The usability and familiarity of WordPress is really what sells us on it. It\u2019s a high-level site for development and gets our team where we need to be…” -Andrew Stone, Marketing and Technology at Madison House Presents<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more about how Market House utilizes WordPress and WP Engine to create world-renowned music festivals and events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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