What your hosting looks like when the cache stops helping

Everyone knows you can cache the hell out of a WordPress site.

Stick a CDN in front of it, cache the pages, make enough of the site static and you can serve a frankly silly amount of traffic without WordPress having to break much of a sweat.

Which is great. We like caching. Cache is king, after all.

But it doesn’t tell you all that much about what happens when WordPress actually has to, you know… generate a page… or do something dynamic (like every single ecommerce site in the world).

So, we decided to test that instead.

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