WordPress is no good for really big projects? Yeah, right! (EN)

I have often come across this notion that WordPress isn’t ready for big projects by default and that a lot of customization is needed for it to work at a truly large scale. However, my personal experience with setting up and helping maintain several really big projects has made me heartfully disagree with this statement. In this talk I will show you how a truly scalable and redundant system can be created without the need to change anything in WordPress. Here are few of the topics I will cover:

— Multiple Web Nodes
How to properly use load balancers and how to set WordPress on multiple web nodes without making any application modifications.
— Multiple Database Nodes
How to have a redundant master-slave DB replication without WordPress even knowing about it.
— Shared Storage
How to organize your files on multiple nodes, replicate them and keep them in sync in the most efficient way.
— Handling Sessions
How to handle sessions properly and how to overcome other potential issues with huge sites hosted on high-availability, multi-node WordPress setups.

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Over Hristo Pandjarov

When it comes to WordPress, Hristo has done it all. He’s supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed themes, written eBooks, and lead the organisation of WordCamp Sofia twice! As SiteGround’s Manager of WordPress initiatives, he spends his days developing and implementing various in-house performance-boosting solutions to help make WordPress websites faster and more secure. When he’s not thinking about how to make WordPress better, Hristo is either planning his next road trip with his beautiful wife or flying his scale airplane models.