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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by falcolas on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:30PM (#13526392)
Agreed. An overloaded WordPress site with a minimal 5 minute page cache can now handle a HN storm. Throw in a CDN for the static assets, disable commenting, and it could likely handle the front page of Reddit.

Amazing how fast a site becomes when it's no longer recalculating every response.

Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by benbristow on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:15AM (#13540100)
For commenting you can always use Disqus which would take the load off your database.