It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the CMS space but I thought Wordpress had dozens of plugins for caching even 10 years ago.
I mean, even just hopping over to host your site in Wordpress.com was a viable option if you were in that middle ground between personal blog and having a dedicated server admin to handle your traffic
Hard to believe that you’d be in the business of serving content in 2024 and have to deal with the slashdot effect from 1999 for your blog of articles and images.
WordPress does have bunches of caching plugins. Some VPS hosts (shout out SiteGround) also have multiple layers of server-level caching that they will apply automatically.
You can take most WordPress websites from multi-second load times to 750ms or less (in fact as a regular exercise I set up fresh WordPress installs on dirt-cheap VPS hosts and see how low I can get them while still having a good site. 250ms to display is not uncommon even without CDNs)
true, but i suspect that wanting to self-host the content is a factor (at least it would be for me). and as others have mentioned, there seem to be issues with the cloudflare setup that should have helped here too, so even with self-hosting, it should be possible to handle this.
I mean, even just hopping over to host your site in Wordpress.com was a viable option if you were in that middle ground between personal blog and having a dedicated server admin to handle your traffic
Hard to believe that you’d be in the business of serving content in 2024 and have to deal with the slashdot effect from 1999 for your blog of articles and images.