> I did not intend to say that the blog should work simply because we threw it on a large instance... That's precisely what you said: "You thought a large ser

> I did not intend to say that the blog should work simply because we threw it on a large instance... That's precisely what you said: "You thought a large server would be enough to handle a single wordpress blog..." > when you are swamped with so many things you don't want to spend too much time on things like maintaining your blog. A competent developer should be able to set up a load balanced WordPress blog (with Nginx/PHP-FPM, Varnish and a separate database server) in a day or less. There are a number of well-written tutorials on this.