Scaling WordPress For Fun and For Profit
May 08, 2015
Scaling WordPress For Fun and For Profit
RC Johnson
WordPress user since 2007 !
Software developer !
Director of Engineering for WP Engine
Managed WordPress
Hosting
>600 TB Daily
40M Uniques/ Day
24/7 Support
Growing by
25%/Q
17,000+ Customers
>140,000 Domains
WordPress ~20% of Internet
Scaling WordPress For Fun and For Profit !
Leverage Monitor Scale
Leverage
Strengths of WordPress
Community Existing enhancements Workflow WordPress as a Platform Know thyself
Playing to the Strengths
Allow by default Cautious Blacklisting Everyone’s doing it
Caching Backups
Know The Enemy
Scale Security Updates
Monitor
Measuring?
Measuring
Scale
Getting help
Scaling Out with Fire
Proto-CM Zabbomation Ansible + Cloud
The Future!
Questions? There are some “less good” ones…