WordPress

Scaling WordPress

Consider to upgrade your WordPress server for ZPress? This is definitely the right place to read through before performing the correct upgrades for your VM. There are a different factor to consider.


When You Should Upgrade?

  1. Your are experiencing frequent slowness / lag when you're visiting your website at a very good internet traffic connection (and a reasonable good computer of course).
  2. You're expecting a predictable large traffic coming in a period of time (says a super large event for 2 weeks!)
  3. Your VM CPU performance's steady consumption (the flat line, not the spikes) is steadily at 50% and above.
  4. You can't upload anymore due to no free space (you used up the entire disk space).


Why You Should Upgrade?

  1. Serving a frequently crashed server will give a very bad impression for your visitors. Hence, if you're experiencing frequent crashes, you should upgrade.

Calculating Cost

CPU Monthly Cost

  1. Visit the pricing calculator and choose a processor that is higher than your existing VM.
  2. Don't add in your persistent disk storage (since we want only the cpu cost).
  3. Let the pricing calculator to calculate the monthly cost.

Persistent Disk Cost

  1. You can now switch to persistent disk calculation. ZPress already set the instance starts at 30GB, you might want to add more if you need more.
  2. Add the cost to the calculator. You should be able to visualise the cost for upgrading persistent disk.

Need Help?

Well, feel free to contact us at hello@zoralab.com. We can help you out with the scaling.