Case Study: Mr. Money Mustache scales to 7 million monthly pageviews with Pantheon

Pantheon Scales Mr. Money Mustache to 7 Million Monthly Pageviews

Mr. Money Mustache is Pete Adeney’s popular personal-finance blog that grew from a hobby into a high-traffic publication, attracting media attention and millions of readers. Sudden traffic spikes from TV and press routinely crashed the WordPress site; larger servers and ad-hoc fixes couldn’t stop outages, forcing Pete to disable features and even pause posting.

Pantheon stepped in with deep WordPress expertise, fixing plugins and code, migrating the site to a containerized platform with Dev/Test/Live workflows, and bringing in partner WP Valet for emergency remediation. The result was reliable auto-scaling, easy backups and testing, elimination of frequent downtime, record daily traffic, and growth to roughly 7 million monthly pageviews—letting the team focus on content instead of infrastructure.

Mr. Money Mustache

Pete Adeney

Mr. Money Mustache