I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by patio11 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:02PM (#3452836)

We're (literally) working on a website refresh right now, which hits that and other points. Sample factoid: One of the customers was on 20/20 recently and sustained 2,500 requests per second for 15 minutes.

Boring technical details: Varnish caching, automatic load balancing, redundant servers (beefy physical hardware to avoid poor disk performance on virtualized systems), "Death to KeepAlive", etc.

(Ooh, it is live now: http://wpengine.com/our-infrastructure/ )

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by larrys on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:07PM (#3453136)

That's great. I actually read the whole page.

I would add an additional bullet to the home page adapting a key statement from that page where they said "sit back and be happy you're not having to do all this yourself."

Why our engine never stops

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(Hey, why are we so fast, secure and scalable?)

Sit back and be happy that you're not having to do all this yourself

Linked to the "our-infrastructure page".

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by patio11 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:42PM (#3453291)

Thanks for the suggestions. We're still in the process of updating things, but we'll make "Compelling for non-technical users who just want things to not break, comprehensive for technical people who want to understand we're not snow-jobbing them." a priority.

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