What is the optimum plan to host a Wordpress MS with Thousands of customers ? A customer is provided with a site(subdomain) with the limit of 50MB storage and 1000 visitors. It would be helpful if you can assist me with the following:
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You can achieve millions of hits a day on a 512MB droplet, if you follow WordPress best-practices. Start with <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-nginx-php-and-varnish-on-ubuntu-12-04”>How To Install Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04</a>. You’ll also want to add memcache, APC, and a CDN for static files. A caching plugin like W3 Total Cache also does wonders. <br> <br>Think twice about using Multisite, and consider going with <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-multiple-wordpress-sites-on-a-single-ubuntu-vps”>How To Set Up Multiple WordPress Sites on a Single Ubuntu VPS</a>, instead (but substituting Nginx for Apache). There’s a newer article, also, but I haven’t gotten a chance to go through it: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-single-and-multiple-wordpress-site-settings-with-nginx”>How To Configure Single and Multiple WordPress Site Settings with Nginx</a>. <br> <br>I tried Multisite for a while and was frustrated that not all plugins support Multisite (including – at the time, at least – many of the popular ones). While other popular plugins did (technically) support Multisite, you could quickly tell that they were designed for single-WordPress installs and were merely subsequently stretched to “support” Multisite – w/o revisiting fundamental framework decisions; in other words, many plugins that “supported” Multisite did not work as well as they did on single-WordPress installs. <br> <br>Not sure about edublogs.org, but WordPress.com utilizes Nginx loadbalancing.