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More than any other business, an enterprise-level organization needs to maintain a reliable, scalable web presence to remain highly competitive. With that objective in mind, many IT leaders at large-scale businesses have historically adopted expensive web solutions that require proprietary support contract for guaranteed quality. However, there is now a much less expensive way, WordPress. Now past its tenth birthday, WordPress powers over 30% of the entire global web, and it is increasingly becoming a key tool for even the largest firms.

In this blog post, NOYO Web takes a look at why this phenomenon is occurring. Let’s begin by defining and enterprise-level business. This term is frequently used generically, but typically it means a large, multinational company. In general, they have multiple layers of individual organizational units that comprise the greater company. Relating to web technology, an enterprise-level website needs the capability to handle significant traffic throughput, especially if it is a media site.

In addition, an enterprise website must handle localization, smaller microsites, and multilingual content. These solutions must also accommodate complex access requirements with clearly defined roles and permissions.

As the globe’s most popular CMS with more than ten years of active development supporting it, and the launching of a billion dollar company called Automattic, WordPress easily handles all of the above requirements.

Can WordPress Scale?

Yes. A single WordPress site can handles hundreds of millions of page views per month, and it can serve tens of thousands of concurrent users. It does this while being lightning fast the entire time. The question isn’t so much whether WordPress can scale, but whether your implementation plan is adequate and you’re prepared.

NOYO Web Development uses the most current best practices from around the globe in delivering WordPress at scale. We offer a solid foundation for planning your scalable implementation, both for site owners and development teams.

What Makes WordPress so Scalable?

Right out of the box, WordPress gives you a high performance platform with the highest levels of security and powerful media management. In addition, the WordPress platform can be tailored and configured to provide much more. WordPress is highly customizable from a design angle. It can provide you with a simple blogging website with a built-in theme, or it can be scaled to provide a sophisticated design with complex architecture for a global brand.

For the smaller, basic corporate “electronic business” card website, NOYO Web Development can add a wide variety of functionalities. WordPress is extendable with over 45,000 plugins for a seemingly endless array of options. We can add media galleries, ecommerce, video, mailing lists, forums, contact forms, analytics, SEO, event calendars, carousel sliders, newsletter signups, social sharing, advertising, and affiliate links. These are from the plugins available from the WordPress plugin directory. Other sites offer thousands more.

Over the next few blog posts, NOYO Web Development will delve more deeply into the following features that make WordPress the best choice for enterprise-level websites:

• Elastic Architecture: Horizontal scalability matters the most.
• Page Caching: Reverse proxy caching is crucial to enterprise-level traffic.
• Object Caching: Speedier dynamic page views rely on persistent object caching.
• Query Performance: Why the database creates the ultimate bottleneck.
• Searching for Scale: Improve database performance and user experience with a search index.
• A Real-World Scalable Site Architecture: Scalable architecture goes beyond LAMP.
• Workflow and Development: Taking care in the planning.

NOYO Web Development has the critical experience planning, designing, and implementing large scale websites with global ecommerce. Your business may not be global today, but if your plan includes crossing borders and making it to the Fortune 500, you should only use WordPress to scale as you grow. Give us a call today for a free consultation.