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There are huge _read_ benefits, especially at scale. They traded that off against write performance - which means it's an awful idea for Twitter, but write perf
by bigiain 4y ago
There are huge _read_ benefits, especially at scale. They traded that off against write performance - which means it's an awful idea for Twitter, but write performance isn't exactly a problem for someone who only write a blogpost or two a week.
In my opinion, most Wordpress sites (specifically ones that are not updated multiple times a day) should be generated static sites. They can them be hoisted on S3 with CloudFront/CloudFlare in front of them, and never ever need to worry about scale or security. You can't SQLi or XSS a website that's just static html. It's practically un-DDOSable too.