Mar 25 2025 44 mins
In this episode of Impressive Hosting, Jesse Friedman speaks with Aaron Ware from Linchpin and Joshua Goode from WP Cloud at Automattic about WordPress hosting for higher education. They discuss approaching university websites, managing peak traffic during enrollment and commencement, and the debate between WordPress Multisite versus single-site implementations. The conversation covers performance optimization, caching solutions for logged-in users, and the "noisy neighbor" problem in shared environments. Throughout, they emphasize making hosting decisions based on an institution's specific needs rather than defaulting to legacy approaches.
00:00 Teaser
00:54 Intro
23:57 Scaling for Success in Higher Education
28:37 Making the Right Decision in Higher Education with Multi-site
30:16 Navigating Caching Challenges in Higher Education
33:16 Multi-site and Higher Education
38:15 Single Site versus Multi-site in Higher Education
44:26 "The Noisy Neighbor:" Performance Scaling Challenges on Multi-Site
51:28 Post-Game Analysis
- Linchpin
- Aaron Ware on Twitter/X - @AaronWare
- Joshua Goode's personal site
- Impressive.host (for questions and comments)
- Impressive Hosting episode with Jim Groom
- Query Monitor plugin
- WordPress Multisite documentation