How Should Hosting Companies Handle WordPress Performance at Scale?

28/10/2025 33 min Episodio 33
How Should Hosting Companies Handle WordPress Performance at Scale?

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Jesse Friedman continues his conversation with Wes Tatters from Rapyd Cloud, exploring performance benchmarking through Orderly Apes, why successful sites need white-glove service expectations, and how WordPress hosts defend against SaaS platform migration. They discuss WordPress scalability challenges, the importance of contributing to WordPress core, and why data ownership makes WordPress superior to closed platforms. Performance and Testing ToolsOrderly Apes - Open source performance testing dashboard forked from K6K6 - Performance testing tool acquired by GrafanaGrafana - Monitoring and observability platformWP Hosting Benchmarks - Kevin Ohashi's WordPress hosting performance reviewsReview Signal - Web hosting reviews and benchmarksPlatforms and ProductsBuddyBoss - WordPress community platform and social networking pluginThe Happy Pear - Vegan lifestyle community that started on BuddyBossFluent Communities - WordPress community platform with BuddyBoss importerSureCart - WordPress e-commerce pluginFluent Cart - WooCommerce alternativeLearnDash - WordPress LMSTutor LMS - WordPress learning management systemLifterLMS - WordPress LMS platformElementor - WordPress page builderAdvanced Custom Fields - WordPress custom fields pluginWordPress Community ResourcesWordPress Make Hosting Team - WordPress hosting contributor teamWordPress Make Slack - WordPress contributor Slack channelsWordPress TV - WordCamp presentations and talksFive for the Future - WordPress contribution initiativeWordCamp EuropeWordCamp BrisbaneWordCamp USCloudFestSecurity ToolsWP Scan - WordPress security vulnerability databasePatchStack - WordPress vulnerability protection (mentioned in previous episode)Click here to watch a video of this episode.