Case Study: M3 Media scales high-traffic WordPress sites with Rocket.net

M3 Media - Customer Case Study

M3 Media, a full digital team managing high-profile WordPress sites including Hannity.com, needed a hosting platform that could scale for major traffic spikes like Election Day without downtime. They approached Rocket.net to move away from Flywheel and manage 25 sites handling more than 40 million visits per month, with the key question of whether the stack could truly scale.

Rocket.net migrated 15 sites in two days using its zero-gravity migration process and edge-based WordPress hosting with Cloudflare Enterprise, full-page caching, security protections, and optimized reporting. The results were strong: 57.3 million total visitors, a 96.7% cache hit ratio, 1 million+ visits per hour on peak days, and only 1.86 million requests reaching origin, while M3 Media avoided extra billing for visitors or PHP workers and improved performance, security, and cost efficiency.

M3 Media

Blair Cullen

Chief Technology Officer