{"id":9061,"date":"2015-05-11T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:11:58","slug":"digital-shoreditch-trusts-wp-engine-for-scalability-reliability-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/digital-shoreditch-trusts-wp-engine-for-scalability-reliability-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Shoreditch Trusts WP Engine For Scalability, Reliability [Case Study]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Shoreditch\u00a0is a not-for-profit community that runs the annual Digital Shoreditch\u00a0Festival, a two-week celebration in East London. The Festival, which kicks off on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1434630521\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday, May 11 and runs<\/span><\/span>\u00a0through Sunday, May 24, draws more than 15,000 people from around the world to participate in tech and creative-focused talks, keynotes, workshops, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As the event nears, traffic to the Digital Shoreditch website spikes\u2014it sees a 240 percent increase in volume of visitors during the two-week Festival period. The site needs to be able to withstand that growth and scale, while also remaining secure and delivering 100 percent uptime.<\/p>\n<p>To support its growth, Digital Shoreditch relies on the managed hosting platform for WordPress from WP Engine.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how Digital Shoreditch trusts WP Engine for growth, scalability, and reliability, check out this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WP-CS-DigitalShoreditch-002-A4-web.pdf\">case study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And be sure to stop by and visit WP Engine this week at Digital Shoreditch in East London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Shoreditch\u00a0is a not-for-profit community that runs the annual Digital Shoreditch\u00a0Festival, a two-week celebration in East London. 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