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- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 11 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s definitely a solution I am currently researching. The main hurdle is to consider how to transfer everything. Let’s say I get a VPS or a cheap, but modern dedicated server with low storage. Or perhaps even wordpress managed hosting if offloading can be properly integrated, since plugin choice and functionality might be limited. Premium plugins like WP Offload Media only work when you already have the media on your local storage. A risky solution would be offloading the media on my current server, then installing the plugin on the new server and hoping all the media syncs…
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 12 hours ago:
So you would definitely recommend going with OLS over nginx for my context?
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 12 hours ago:
Thank you for the good insight! I suspect the bot problem is only going to get worse with time and the bots more complex… I will definitely need to consider this.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 12 hours ago:
It’s 200-250k monthly users… Yeah, the server is overkill. Unfortunately, the situation is a bit more tricky, I forgot to mention the storage constraint in my initial post. Look at the reply I wrote to @dan@upvote.au to see what I mean.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 12 hours ago:
Sorry for the late reply. We are using an older Hetzner with i7 6700, 64 gb and 500 GB SATA SSD. It’s quite ancient by modern standards and it is starting to show its age in some usecases. I am well aware the new machine is way too powerful for our current context but unfortunately the site is very old so it amassed a huge library of media of over 300gb over many years. If we plan to store it locally, we could probably compress it aggresively to free a few dozen GB, but to be fair it would only delay the inevitable upgrade. Clearly, an alternative would be some sort of media offloading with premium WordPress plugins to ensure robustness and regular updates, but that introduces complexity, so it’s something I will need to discuss with our developer.
But let’s say we do choose this very powerful server, you mentioned loading from the disk, but wouldn’t loading from RAM (given the excessive amount of RAM for this usecase) be preferable whenever available?
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 12 hours ago:
Sorry for the late reply and thank you for offerint these options to me. The articles were also interesting. :)
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