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The women's online magazine that follows you everywhere! Every day articles, news and insights on Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle and much more with an editorial slant different from the journalistic one tout court and in line with the trend of widespread journalism, the one that informs and entertains from below.
As reported in the description above, taken verbatim from their website, for those who are not yet familiar with it, Bigodino.it is an online magazine aimed primarily at a female audience (but not only) that is constantly growing and expanding. In just a few months, thanks to clever editorial planning and a surgical use of social media channels, it has managed to reach very significant numbers.
These numbers and traffic spikes (a fairly common phenomenon on viral websites and news) were accompanied by systemic issues that made navigation and site uptime unsatisfactory. In some cases, the site suffered from the thousands of connected users, taking it offline and therefore jeopardizing traffic monetization as well as any potential SEO positioning in the eyes of Google, which could have detected the site offline.
The solution: Optimized WordPress Hosting
As a standard solution that we offer to all those realities that have more than 200 visits per month and need guarantees such as uptime up to 99.98%, triple backups, and 24-hour managed assistance, we have proposed our WordPress Hosting services in order to solve the annoying problems.
Our technological solution based on hardware with 8 core and 16 thread servers, 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, 2 SSD disks in RAID, 1 Gbit of bandwidth, and at the software level with a stack that includes NGINX, Varnish, Zend OpCache, PHP-FPM, Memcached, Redis.io, and Brotli , allowed us first of all to eliminate a CDN that had the function of serving content, but caused several problems with refreshing the cache and published articles.
The road test was immediately successful, with peaks of around 4000 connected users and an absolutely optimal server load, much to the delight of the owners, the editorial staff, and of course, ourselves.
Obviously, as per previous case studies, the stack offered with this hardware and software configuration is capable of supporting much higher numbers , in the order of ten times as much, having already tested traffic peaks of over 50 thousand users connected in real time in cases of viral spots without having to implement horizontal or vertical scaling solutions.
If you also have high traffic sites and want to get the maximum performance and enjoy the benefits that SEO is able to provide, do not hesitate to contact us to get the best solution at the best cost that most of the high traffic Italian sites have chosen.
Update after 30 months. Results obtained with an excellent Hosting Partner like ours
It seemed correct to show the evolution of an online magazine like curler.it after 30 months.
While not knowing in detail the editorial line and the business choices of the company (since we rightly only do Hosting), it seems evident that on the publisher side the best choices were made given the results.
For our part, we have certainly worked to bring new and cutting-edge technological innovations, such as the implementation of brotli compression , conditional webp image serving compatible with browsers like Safari that do not natively support them, the implementation of better and more performing versions of Percona Server in place of the now renowned MySQL, a superfine tuning of the network parameters, and other small measures that have certainly offered potential to those who would (and knew how) to exploit it.
Without going into too much detail and getting too technical, looking at the images above from March 2, 2019, or 30 months ago (about 2 and a half years), and the one below from today, September 24, 2021, the bigodino.it site went from being the 702nd site in Italy to the 418th , and from having 3 and a half million visits per month to having almost 17 million.
Practically an increase of about 500%, a good 5 times that.
An ambitious goal achieved with skilful collaboration and synergy between the publisher and our support.
