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Semiconductor giant AMD serves 260,000 visitors to its U.S.-based developer outreach site, AMD Developer Central<\/a>, each month. This site is critical for fostering relationships with AMD\u2019s developer community\u2014the developers who create software that unlocks the power of AMD\u2019s award-winning hardware.<\/p>\n

Growing demand from its audience left AMD Developer Central grappling with uptime, reliability, and security challenges in addition to a content delivery network (CDN) with a limiting 25mb upload bottleneck.<\/p>\n

AMD migrated Developer Central to WP Engine, leveraging our managed hosting platform for WordPress<\/a> and our WordPress expertise to tackle these tough problems. The result? Developer Central has dramatically improved uptime and reliability and boasts a WordPress-compatible CDN that enables distribution of content to anywhere in the word\u2014and fast!<\/p>\n

Read the full story in this downloadable case study.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semiconductor giant AMD serves 260,000 visitors to its U.S.-based developer outreach site, AMD Developer Central, each month. This site is critical for fostering relationships with AMD\u2019s developer community\u2014the developers who create software that unlocks the power of AMD\u2019s award-winning hardware. Growing demand from its audience left AMD Developer Central grappling with uptime, reliability, and security…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-topic":[912,898,915],"resource-role":[903,899],"resource-type":[914],"class_list":["post-25152","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAMD Increases Reliability, Speed and Security Of Developer Site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AMD Developer Central faced performance, reliability and uptime issues. 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