10. Not scalable

Two hundred millions visits

In just over a week

And on a really busy day

5K per sec at peak


No, I haven’t checked if this makes sense. But WordPress is scalable. Ask any WordPress.com or WordPress VIP developer. It might cost a few bob.
And it may not be as fast as a different solution.

On the downside, some code when running on some hosts can demonstrate absolutely atrocious performance.
And it’s not always the database to blame. So query monitor won’t help you.


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