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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
To have a project which can scale to millions of visitors, what would you advise one's developers be proficient in to code from scratch? If the initial base was WordPress, where is scale going to max out even on VIP hosting etc.?
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WordPress is usually not a perfect solution if you want to scale it to millions of users. Here’s a few things that can be done to improve WordPress website scalability:
⁃ Load balancing (multiple servers, horizontal scaling)
⁃ Infrastructure autoscaling (e.g. AWS EC2 autoscaling groups)
⁃ Caching (e.g. using Varnish or Redis)
⁃ CDNs like CloudFront or Cloudflare
⁃ Database replicas (read/write)
We do recommend building a custom solution when a goal it to have high traffic, as we can build in infrastructure and code optimisation to allow for this from the very beginning.
To directly answer your question “what would you advise one's developers be proficient in to code from scratch”, PHP is fine, but it’s more about cloud architecture, so ideally you’d have a solution architect / cloud architect / devops engineers in the team to handle this properly.