Scaling WordPress: AWS is no silver bullet

There is a common misconception that hosting WordPress on AWS makes it scalable automatically. Every online WordPress community I visit has a fair number of posts asking about solutions for a growing site. 10 out of 10 times, these posts have a suggestion that says,...

Scaling WordPress: Latency vs Throughput

When scaling WordPress sites, one of the first things people try is adding more hardware. Unless this is a proven bottleneck in the stack, this added hardware capacity is often left idle only to be used by various buffers and caches later. So how do you do capacity...

WordPress Multisite

What is WordPress Multisite? WordPress(WP) Multisite is a feature that lets users create a “Network” of subsites from a single install of WP. This allows users to use subdomains (also known as subdirectories) of the exact same root domain (for example:...