I mentioned it was the default install but maybe that wasn't clear enough. I changed them all to 2014 theme too to give some parity. Real sites get heavier and heavier. When I load tests later they were on more realistic sites with some popular plugins enabled and dummy content. It's hard to make a 'representative' site though. Each install I've worked with has it's own set of plugins and feature-creep, it's hard to benchmark something like that and say it scales across everything.
It definitely is a lot of work managing your own sites and these managed providers certainly fit a niche. You wouldn't be the first to jump in and start offering it yourself. Pressable has a bunch of code shared on GitHub if you were serious about it too.
If you ever are interested in writing about your experience optimizing WP, I was thinking of doing an article like that as well. Maybe you could do a guest post? kevin at reviewsignal is my email if you're interested.
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I mentioned it was the default install but maybe that wasn't clear enough. I changed them all to 2014 theme too to give some parity. Real sites get heavier and heavier. When I load tests later they were on more realistic sites with some popular plugins enabled and dummy content. It's hard to make a 'representative' site though. Each install I've worked with has it's own set of plugins and feature-creep, it's hard to benchmark something like that and say it scales across everything.
It definitely is a lot of work managing your own sites and these managed providers certainly fit a niche. You wouldn't be the first to jump in and start offering it yourself. Pressable has a bunch of code shared on GitHub if you were serious about it too.
If you ever are interested in writing about your experience optimizing WP, I was thinking of doing an article like that as well. Maybe you could do a guest post? kevin at reviewsignal is my email if you're interested.