Work we can show, and what it actually cost to learn.

Our own site

It fell over whenever traffic spiked. That stopped.

BuddyXTheme.com is ours, which is why it was the one we experimented on. It is also why we can show you the whole thing.

• The symptom: real visitors got 504 errors at peak, because every single visit queried the database directly.
• The cause was load, not code. The site now serves visitors from cache and only ever writes through WordPress.
• A page is fetched once per cache window instead of once per visitor, so a traffic spike costs no more than a quiet hour.
• Nothing changed for whoever publishes. Still one click, live in two to three minutes.