According to their IT Director, Jason Gooljar, “In the past, we\u2019ve experienced problems with moving web hosts near Earth Day and having the site go down.” In this case study, read about how Earth Day Network seamlessly migrated their site to WP Engine with zero downtime. In addition, find out how they shaved off eight seconds of page load time from the initial 11 seconds it took for their home page to fully render.<\/p>\n
“WP Engine has such great staff and help with onboarding is the most important phase. This was the easiest site migration I\u2019ve ever had to do.\u201d
\n\u2014 Jason Gooljar, IT Director, Earth Day Network<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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