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Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

One of the big complaints that the anti-Wordpress chorus croons is that the vaunted blogging platform doesn’t scale.  Certainly we’ve all seen sites brought low by the “Slashdot Effect” or the “Digg Effect” but my experience tells me that WordPress is getting a bad rap for poor server setup, poor plugin choice, etc. How do I know?  Well, one of the sites I work with last week experienced the “China Syndrome” or potentially “The Great Fire Hose”.  The site, TheTruthAboutCars.com…

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MySQL Table Locking & WordPress Scalability

MySQL Table Locking & WordPress Scalability

I ran into an interesting issue recently, and since I had so much trouble finding a solution, I’ll post about it. We have a very large WordPress site with somewhere around 32,000 posts. Sometime during may the database (MySQL 5.10) started to randomly crash, taking along with it the Apache server, etc. Every time the crashes occurred, we’d find that the number of users had climbed over the available processes, in this case, 501. We went through a whole host…

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