Case Study: Counselling Tutor serves 30K+ members with Pressidium Managed WordPress Hosting

Counselling Tutor speeds up admin loads 84x with Pressidium

Counselling Tutor, a provider of online continuing education with a LearnDash website serving over 30,000 members, faced persistent performance challenges with their previous hosting. Their site was extremely slow and experienced outages, with page load times of up to 114 seconds due to inefficient database queries from a legacy LearnDash feature. Their former host's support was slow and unhelpful, resorting to throttling instead of solutions.

Pressidium's engineering team conducted thorough load testing and identified the root cause: slow REGEX-based SQL queries triggered by a legacy data structure. Pressidium implemented LearnDash's built-in "Convert Course Access Lists" tool on a test environment, which resolved the issue. This solution drastically improved performance, reducing the page load time from 114 seconds to 1.36 seconds—an 84x improvement—with no timeouts. Counselling Tutor now seamlessly serves its members and highly recommends Pressidium.

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