Case Study: Digital Shoreditch achieves scalable, 100% reliable website with WP Engine

Reliable WordPress Hosting for Not-for-Profit Community

Digital Shoreditch is a not-for-profit community that runs a two-week festival in East London attracting around 15,000 participants. As the event grew, the WordPress site needed to handle large, unpredictable traffic spikes (up to a 240% increase during the festival) and an 80% rise in content updates while delivering near-100% uptime—requirements that a small, eight-person team could not manage on its own.

Digital Shoreditch moved to WP Engine’s managed WordPress hosting, using EverCache, extensive security scanning and a user-friendly portal so multiple team members can edit the site safely. The result: fast, secure, regularly backed-up hosting with responsive support that handled festival traffic, removed technical headaches, and provided scalable plans to support future growth.

Digital Shoreditch

James Allsopp

Director