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Managed WordPress for critical high-traffic sites

Capacity planned around concurrent visitors, dynamic requests, and traffic peaks. We assess the workload and recommend a provider and configuration before you commit.

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Managed WordPress for critical high-traffic sites

Managed WordPress hosting on the cloud you choose

Pick your provider; we operate and manage the infrastructure for your site.

Northstar Events visitors per hour over a week: about 570 in an average hour and 21,600 in the hour the summer tour went on sale, on a Google Cloud server in London sized for 26,000 an hour

Sized for the busiest hour

Launches and ticket releases bring thousands at once. Your server is built for that hour.

Your own server

No other client’s traffic can slow your site.

Cache first

Cache and CDN answer most visits, leaving the server for checkout and logins.

From €300/month From $300/month
Final scope and price agreed before work starts.

Request a server

Capacity, measured

A load test shows where your site slows.

Northstar Events load test on a staging copy: uncached pages stay fast up to 165 requests a second, well above the expected peak of 95, then slow down, with errors from 205. Cached pages stay fast throughout. Most requests are cached event pages; the rest are seat picker, search, checkout and login
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  • On a copy of your site

    A staging copy on a same-size server, so real visitors never feel it.

  • What visitors really do

    Browsing, search, logins and checkout in realistic shares.

  • A number to plan with

    The request rate where pages slow, against your expected peak.

Before a big day

Tell us the date. We get the server ready.

  1. A week before

    • Updates pausedNo changes until the event is over.

  2. The day before

    • Server resizedMore CPU and memory, back down after.
    • Heavy jobs movedImports, bulk emails and reports kept off the peak.

  3. Hours before

    • Cache warmedKey pages cached before visitors arrive.
    • Bots held backFirewall limits for scrapers and scripted buyers.
    • Fresh backupTaken right before the start.

Included on every server

One monthly price covers it all.

Set up and kept current

  • Server setupConfigured and hardened for WordPress.
  • Free migrationYou check the copy before it goes live.
  • UpdatesChecked before they reach your sites.
  • Backups and restoresAutomatic, with a restore when you ask.

Kept fast and safe

  • Performance tuningCaching, PHP, database and WP Raiser.
  • SecurityFirewall, SSL, malware checks and cleanup.
  • MonitoringUptime and resource alerts come to us first.
  • Written supportFrom the engineers who run your server.

How to get a server

A fixed monthly price, agreed first.

A server request conversation: the client asks for two WordPress sites with 120,000 visits a month in Europe, and the reply quotes a Hetzner server in Germany with 4 vCPU, 8 GB memory and 160 GB NVMe, migration, backups and updates included, billed monthly, accepted by replying

  1. Tell us about your site

    Send a server request with your traffic and current host. Clients can open a ticket.

  2. Get a written quote

    Within one business day: the server, what is included and the monthly price.

  3. Accept and add a card

    Reply to accept, then add a card in the portal. Billing is monthly.

  4. We set up and migrate

    We build the server, you check the copy, and we switch DNS and run it.

Peak traffic questions

Planning for traffic you can’t fully predict.

How do you size the server?
From your busiest hour, logins and uncached pages, or your forecast if it’s new.
What if the peak is bigger?
Cached pages keep loading. We ease the load, then resize if needed.
Does the server scale by itself?
No, we resize it ourselves ahead of events, with a short scheduled restart.
How much notice do you need?
A few days for a load test and resize; less for the rest.
Does a bigger server cost more?
Yes. We quote any change in writing, and nothing changes until you accept.
Which provider suits a busy site?
Most do. We pick one near your visitors, with room to grow.