I’m Mike

WordPress seems to have a bad reputation when it comes to scalability. Maybe it’s deserved, since a default WordPress installation doesn’t really scale well. But making WordPress scale isn’t hard. I recently hit the Digg home page and got roughly 70,000 pageviews in under 12 hours. Another post hit the home page later the same day, and another 10,000 clickthroughs followed. As a result, I’ve been asked by a few people how I managed to keep my site up under that sort of stress. Honestly, I haven’t done anything that fancy. But for future reference I figured I’d document my configuration, and let people in on one trick that saved my butt. Read the rest of this entry »