Case Study: Madison House Presents achieves zero downtime during peak festival traffic with WP Engine

Scaling Musical Festivals For The Crowd

Madison House Presents produces world-class live music events, including Electric Forest, and operates websites that must withstand intense, predictable traffic spikes—around ticket/lineup announcements and during two festival weekends that draw tens of thousands. A 2015 performance hiccup made it clear their sites needed a more robust infrastructure to stay online and responsive during peak demand.

They upgraded to a stronger WP Engine plan, moved email templates to a separate database, and enabled the CDN; since those changes the Electric Forest site has handled peak traffic with zero downtime. The team also praises WP Engine’s simple dashboard and WordPress’ familiar backend, which let them build modern sites while confidently handing them off to clients.

Madison House Presents

Andrew Stone

Marketing & Technology