Celebritynews - latest celebrity news, rumors and insider reports
OVERVIEW
Celebritynews is a high load news Web resource.
Industry: News & Events
Country: USA
Size of the team: 2 people
Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Nginx, CDN
Services provided: Web Development, Server Tunning, Server Administration
Duration of the Project: 2 months
IDEA
This is more than easy to manage WordPress blog! We know that as we did it, but what about more complex solutions like high load Web sites?
What if we can combine easiness of WordPress and big amounts of traffic?
Here goes Celebritynews - a Web portal that provides latest news about trending celebrities.
CHALLENGES
The main challenge was expected ,so we had to deal with performance of WordPress.
Despite the fact that WordPress has plenty of advantages, it could not cope with big traffic. Also turned out that the chosen theme had some holes,which we needed to close.
SOLUTION
We made it happen doing three things: reworking the theme we chose, choosing right server equipment and fine server tuning.
We optimized SQL-requests in the theme, removed extra functionality that affects the speed. After that we took care of server equipment being focused on network bandwidth and speed of data repositories.
The most exciting task was to fine tune the server infrastructure. We changed classic MySQL to MariaDB. After that proper settings for cache and buffer were configured. As a Web server Nginx was chosen set up manually and tested for a several weeks to obtain the power we were struggling for!
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