10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
The hallmark of Wordpress is ease of use. That's why you can spin up a blog right on their site, and they have a backend designed by Happy Cog. Wordpress is blog software for the technically illiterate.<p>And then I take a look at this blog post that lists all the incantations necessary to scale Wordpress to reasonable scale and I wonder <i>why</i> anyone should do this.<p>If you're setting up your own server, installing nginx, configuring PHP, and doing automated load testing, maybe you should also consider rolling your own software or using a different package that isn't supremely bloated.