Wordcamp2009

The document discusses strategies for optimizing WordPress performance and scalability as website traffic grows. It recommends optimizing the WordPress configuration, disabling heavy or unnecessary plugins, enabling caching plugins like WP Super Cache, and using a content delivery network to offload assets. As traffic increases, the document suggests moving from shared hosting to virtual private servers or dedicated servers to allow configuration changes. It advises a scale-out approach adding more web servers behind a load balancer and scaling databases for redundancy as needed. The key is optimizing WordPress for performance early and scaling infrastructure ahead of traffic growth.