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timperatoday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's WordPress, which is a great CMS but can quickly crumble under load when using cheap hosting.


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andixtoday at 1:36 PM

With an external cache/CDN it should work perfectly fine.

There are also some caching plugins for wordpress, but most of them still hit the database on every request.

yanis_ttoday at 1:28 PM

So I assume it's because it's not statically build, but requires a DB connection all the time?

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