Case Study: Copper Leaf Creative achieves massive scalability and improved security with WP Engine

With WP Engine, Copper Leaf Creative is Confident its Clients can Survive the Spike

Copper Leaf Creative is a WordPress website and business design agency that builds sites “with purpose.” After several client sites were hacked around Christmas 2011 and while supporting clients that require massive traffic bursts (notably The Paramount theater, which once had about 17 minutes’ notice before a Billy Joel ticket sale), the firm needed a proactive, scalable hosting solution rather than a “run it yourself” approach.

Copper Leaf migrated many clients to WP Engine’s managed WordPress platform and now runs large multisite networks and individual installs on a white‑glove “WP Professionally Managed” plan. When The Paramount announced the Billy Joel show, the site handled roughly 3,000 visitors per hour with no downtime or failover, delivering improved security, reliable uptime, and the massive scalability Copper Leaf needed to confidently serve and grow its clients.

Copper Leaf Creative

Gordon Seirup

Founder