Case Study: SpinMedia achieves outage-free, faster WordPress sites with ScaleArc for MySQL

SpinMedia Selects ScaleArc to Eliminate Site Outages and Increases the Performance of WordPress-based Websites

SpinMedia, a network of 45 pop-culture and music digital brands that attracts about 34 million unique visitors and 400 million page views monthly, was struggling with MySQL database locking and site outages as traffic spiked. WordPress’s native behavior and plugins like HyperDB provided only marginal relief, so the team needed transparent read/write splitting, caching, load balancing and query analytics to boost performance and availability without rewriting applications.

They deployed ScaleArc for MySQL, which sits transparently between WordPress and the database and was rolled out to one high-traffic site in under a day and then to 15 sites. ScaleArc delivered immediate read/write splitting, caching and real-time SQL analytics, improving site performance and uptime, enabling instant database scalability without code changes or hardware upgrades, and giving developers the visibility to identify and fix slow queries.

SpinMedia

Chet Rungruang

Senior director of IT