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> but in particular I believe that inherent inefficiency with WordPress design will incur more cost to scale

WordPress essentially generates static pages and is trivially set-up to run behind a CDN like Cloudflare.

You can easily have WordPress sites in the Alexa top 50k that run on a $5 VPS - behind Cloudflare.

> My rule of thumb is that will probably be alright for a simple, small project,

Right. Simple, small projects. Like whitehouse.gov.

As long as you use Wordpress for what it was designed for, it really doesn't matter what scale you have.




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