Static content generation, better optimizations and caching settings would go a long way... hell since many blogs are using third party comment systems, they should probably cache all requests for not logged in users for 5 minutes by default... it&#x27;s up the application servers though.<p>Making any variance between logged in, and not logged in visitors limited to JS enhanced interactions would help for most systems too.<p>A current server can pretty easily hit C100K per cpu core... There have been test runs at over a million concurrent connections on a single large server instance.  It&#x27;s all on the application design... using an application that&#x27;s a couple decades old as a common baseline is part of the problem... honestly, wordpress should just die already.