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Hello everyone so basically last minute changes have caused a website on wordpress I manage to host an embedded stream which has an expected 2000-3000 concurrent users.
Site is wordpress, optimized plugins, images , memory limits ect.
It’s on wpengine shared hosting so was thinking to upgrade to the maximum plan ( $190 per month , they list as 30 websites 500gb bandwidth, 400,000 users)
If I had time I would talk to a different host that we can do a VPS or such for but that’s basically what we are stuck with.
The stream is statically embedded so I figured that helps shave a lot of data
Any advice to make sure downtime chance is minimized is GREATLY appreciated.
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Make sure you having a good caching plugin like WP rocket installed and a CDN.
WPEngine are generally very good
It may be worth telling your host about the traffic surge.
WPEngine shared servers should be able to handle this volume of traffic, but I would chat them to ask. Watching a stream is a passive task (sitting on a page) and if it’s streaming from another provider that’s even lower usage.
Also, make sure before upping the plan, any minimum time period to come back down. I forget how WPE does it (been a few years since I used them)
We sell hosting with free migration if you buy a yearly plan with 5-15 minutes of downtime
I will never recommend paying that much for a shared hosting move it to vps ASAP
recommend vps
Hetzner
Contabo
If you know how to managed ubuntu bare meta server then go for these 2 host
Or else you can checkout other hosting that comes with cpanel
Hostinger etc
Take a backup using updraft, setup new wordpress in new hosting restore backup
Of everything is done perfectly the site will be active under 5 min + backup download time
I hope this helps you can dm me if you want any more help
Cache everything that isn’t nailed down (Cloudflare and page caching). Talk to wpengine about upscaling to a dedicated plan to get away from noisy neighbors. That may be easier to accomplish than doing a full migration. Have a way to monitor your traffic and ideally setup alerts to warn you of any system resources approaching thresholds.
Consider building a standby site at a beefier host that you could cut over to with a simple DNS change if the sh*t hits the fan.
Bunny.bet CDN, easy to install via WP plugin and will take a lot of the load off. We get 98.7% cache hit rate.
I suggest you to transfer to Hostinger, they might have better prices and features for you