Can WordPress handle 15 Million?

  • I own a blogish site that gets roughly 15 million hits per month, currently on Drupal. Long story short, I would like to move it to another CMS. I did not build the site initially and it’s a mess functionally. I have built many sites/themes/apps on WordPress in the past, but I’ve never run WP in a high traffic environment and am curious to hear from others who have: what was your experience?

    I would like to avoid theoretical answers and hear more from those who have actually had success or failure using WP with a similar traffic load.

    Any thoughts much appreciated.

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  • Maybe take a look at this site:
    https://vip.wordpress.com/

    That will show you what sort of extremely high traffic sites use WordPress.

    You might want to look at this avenue.

    Thread Starter chrisfay

    (@chrisfay)

    Thanks for the link, definitely some high traffic big names in the list. Too bad the VIP support/consulting starts at 15k per year, not in my budget!

    I would love to know what type of optimizations must be done, or if WP can handle that load out of the box. And if the available plugins alone can achieve what is needed…

    yea wordpress won’t be the problem
    it will be server load, etc.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I would start with a cache plugin (WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache), minimization, MAYBE a DB splitting tool, and probably CDN depending on how much non-DB data I’ve got (images etc).

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