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Birthdays are memorable. They\u2019re a time for celebration. But Max Keeler, head of global operations for international investment information web site The Motley Fool, will remember his most recent birthday not for the party, but for the chaos.<\/p>\n

During a birthday visit to a museum, Keeler’s\u00a0phone buzzed. And buzzed. And buzzed. It wouldn\u2019t stop buzzing. Turns out that all of The Motley Fool\u2019s international WordPress installs were down. They were inaccessible across all countries \u2013 the UK, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and Australia.<\/p>\n

The Motley Fool\u2019s international expansion was a project that started more than five years prior. The company wanted to increase its global presence, and WordPress gave it a rapid time-to-market with reduced overhead. It was an experiment of sorts \u2013get a foot in in a certain area and see how it grows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of the game for us is scale,\u201d he said. \u201cIn order to make this work, we have to scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the sites down, Keeler\u00a0and his team worked through the weekend. They tried everything they could think of to get the sites back online. If they restarted the servers, they\u2019d get 15 minutes of new life, and then they\u2019d go down again. They probed, dissected, and investigated.<\/p>\n

With Monday fast approaching, Keeler\u00a0and his team needed a solution. They had been talking to WP Engine for a project that was coming up and decided to accelerate that and move the international sites to the WP Engine platform to bring them back online. They moved the UK site first.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have been smoother,\u201d Keeler said, noting the migration took just a couple of hours and the team quickly noticed the site was \u201cfaster than it had ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that positive experience under its belt, The Motley Fool moved the remainder of its international sites to WP Engine\u2019s managed hosting platform for WordPress. Within a week, The Motley Fool had migrated what was up to 25 instances on its old provider to four instances with WP Engine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lifesaver,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what we would\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

With WP Engine, Keeler said the 10 percent to 15 percent of the time his team spent on infrastructure is now roughly zero percent.<\/p>\n

And the flexibility of the WP Engine platform gives the Motley Fool the ability to try new things.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive years ago, it would\u2019ve taken three months of coordination to launch in a new country, now we can do it in a day,\u201d Keeler said. \u201cThe cost of experimentation and trying new ideas basically rounds to zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Motley Fool has also seen performance improvements and better uptime. On top of that, the company found WP Engine to be more cost-effective than its previous WordPress platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith WP Engine, we can focus on building our products, not on managing our WordPress sites,\u201d Keeler said.<\/p>\n

For more on how The Motley Fool works with WP Engine, check out the full case study<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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