Case Study: BBC Children in Need raises £41M with WP Engine

BBC Children in Need raises £41M with WP Engine

BBC Children in Need, the BBC's UK charity, needed a new website platform that was flexible and reliable enough to handle extreme fluctuations in traffic, particularly around its annual Appeal Night fundraising event. The organization partnered with WP Engine to build a new site on its enterprise-grade digital experience platform to meet these demanding scalability and uptime requirements.

WP Engine architected a solution using WordPress and AWS to seamlessly scale infrastructure to handle over 200,000 visitors during peak times. The solution included integrations for security and performance monitoring. This new platform enabled BBC Children in Need to raise an incredible £41 million in 2020 alone, providing a flawless user experience for donors.

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