Some lucky WordPress
site owners are the victims of their own success. As their site gains
more content, increases in popularity, and delivers an increasingly
sophisticated service, it requires more storage, bigger bandwidth, and
greater processing power.
Greater power is required to keep the site responsive and to meet customer expectations. Coping with online success requires scaling up (bigger machines) or scaling out (more machines). WordPress, like many applications running on the LAMP stack, needs care and attention to make it scale.
Ignoring the problem means losing customers. Nobody likes a slow website. There is no hard number, but Google does have global statistics on global site speed. If it takes two seconds to render your wares, even the goldfish don't lose their concentration. Ten seconds? Customers are shopping around. Twenty seconds? They are long gone.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/wordpress-site-aws-migration-success-story-how-c21media-scales-to-meet-demands/
Greater power is required to keep the site responsive and to meet customer expectations. Coping with online success requires scaling up (bigger machines) or scaling out (more machines). WordPress, like many applications running on the LAMP stack, needs care and attention to make it scale.
Ignoring the problem means losing customers. Nobody likes a slow website. There is no hard number, but Google does have global statistics on global site speed. If it takes two seconds to render your wares, even the goldfish don't lose their concentration. Ten seconds? Customers are shopping around. Twenty seconds? They are long gone.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/wordpress-site-aws-migration-success-story-how-c21media-scales-to-meet-demands/
