Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue

Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by drewmclellan on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @07:16AM (#6990129)

I wouldn't blame your host, actually. It's WordPress. It's a shame it's so often given a free pass on these issues when it really isn't good at handling peaks in traffic.

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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by sergioschuler on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:00AM (#6990234)

Any alternatives?

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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by danso on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:40AM (#6990606)

Using the popular caching plugins...W3 Total Cache (http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/) or Super Cache (http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/) seem to be well liked and I've used both of them without too many issues (I have some weirdness in my WP upgrade path). My blog has been on HN and reddit a few times and has never crashed, even though I'm on the cheapest Dreamhost hosting plan with what seems like 5 to 10 second response times for non-cached pages.

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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by sergioschuler on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @10:07AM (#6990777)

Will try, thanks!

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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by codygman on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @02:48AM (#6994519)

If you install wp super cache[1], then you shouldn't have any problems

1. http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by diegolo on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:55AM (#6990418)

static html websites

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