Technical Blogging

Performance Considerations

Many good things can be said about WordPress, but speed isn’t one them. A default installation connects to the database and dynamically generates content with each request, thus becoming extremely demanding on your server’s resources.

When you first start blogging, your main challenge is to attract eyeballs, so a slow CMS may not be a huge deal initially. However, by following the roadmap that I outline in this book, you may manage to attract several thousand visitors in the span of a few hours upon publishing and subsequently promoting a new post—even in your early days as a blogger.

A vanilla WordPress installation will most likely die under the weight of so many requests, and you certainly don’t want to see ...