Re:WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Tha...
by patio11 on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:28PM
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There is some serious infrastructure ensuring that that smoke detector is not overwhelmed by the roaring pyroclastic cataclysm that is having lots of Wordpress sites with arbitrarily well-coded PHP running in themes/addons/etc
Simplest example off the top of my head: there's an automated system which will kick you emails saying
"You're sending MySQL ORDER BY RAND(). Not a great idea. We told MySQL to ignore it. There's a setting you can configure to override this if you're confident you know what you're doing. Site outages caused this year by people flipping that switch: 5."
Simplest example off the top of my head: there's an automated system which will kick you emails saying "You're sending MySQL ORDER BY RAND(). Not a great idea. We told MySQL to ignore it. There's a setting you can configure to override this if you're confident you know what you're doing. Site outages caused this year by people flipping that switch: 5."