Sean Tierney On How Disney, Oprah, and Facebook Run WordPress

Oct 15, 2018

Wes Schaeffer

Wordpress The Sales Podcast Marketing Automation Online Business

Get into the weeds to improve your speeds and feeds

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Sean is the Director of Sales for Pagely, the premier managed WordPress hosting provider.
He has over twenty years of experience in tech, marketing, and sales roles and specializes in automation and sales systematization.
Sean lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal where he kitesurfs and mentors startups in the Startup Lisboa incubator.
Read more from Sean on his personal blog or tune into his podcast for digital nomads.
Hosts WordPress for big companies like Oprah, Disney, Facebook
Issues to consider
- Security
- Performance
- Page load
- Patching and updates of plugins
- Backups
Has a partner network
"Make the logo bigger"
Digital Ocean or AWS for hosting if you're good at running things on your own
GoDaddy can help in a shared hosting environment with support
AWS is Amazon Web Services
Load speed
- Plugins are the typical culprit that negatively impact your load speed
- Get your cache straight
  - "What do you employ as a caching strategy?"
  - Engine X full page caching
  - Object caching
- CDN—content delivery network
  - They use the Amazon CDN CloudFront
  - All the static assets of your website like PHP server output
  - Inspect your pages to determine load speed of each element
  - CDN pushes static assets to POPs
- Optimize your images
Troubleshooting Plugins
White glove migration
Shared responsibility model
Husband and wife team built Pagely for themselves 10 years ago with no funding
They were first to market and they created a great reputation