Open-Source Rewrite of WP bottlenecks in Rust/C (20x boost)
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Help make WP world's fastest CMS. 20x-400x speedup, 7x lower latency, drop-in compatible with themes+plugins+core updates, open source!
Backers: 22
Average Pledge Per Backer: $99
Funded: $2,171 of $1,000
Dates: Dec 14th -> Feb 12th (60 days)
Project By: ProgrammerHat.com
Backers: 22
Average Pledge Per Backer: $99
Funded: $2,171 of $1,000
Dates: Dec 14th -> Feb 12th (60 days)
Project By: ProgrammerHat.com
$2,171
current pledge level
Last Updated: February 12 @ 04:09 -0500 GMT
217%
of goal
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Latest News
Bad News: current approach dead-end. Will be taking new approach -- same one Facebook used to speedup their servers 
February 9th - via: kickstarter.com
The current approach of optimizing only WP core is likely a dead-end. This was discovered after testing on a site with Divi 4 enabled. We found Divi 4 plugin alone was adding ~400ms of startup time when WP core itself takes only ~40ms. Thus Divi... (Read More)
Live demo of 7.5x speedup, 7.5x lower latency
January 29th - via: kickstarter.com
We have: ~7.5x speedup of Home+Blogpost (at least on my local machine) ~5x speedup of Home+Blogpost on a tester's test VPS setup Two users who want to put the latest update on real production servers. To test, message us on Discord:... (Read More)
Live demo of 5x speedup, 5x lower latency
January 21st - via: kickstarter.com
We have: ~5x speedup of WP dashboard (at least on my local machine) ~3x speedup of WP dashboard on a tester's test VPS setup Two users who want to put the latest update on real production servers. Live demo + presentation here: ... ... To test,... (Read More)
Live demo video of 2.5x speedup
January 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi all, We now have a stable release for 2.5x speedup that is not likely to have any bugs. The previous 4x speedup was done using some aggressive caching that had difficult bugs to resolve. We are already deploying this version to the test servers of... (Read More)
Testers Wanted! First Milestone Delivered: 4× Faster WordPress
December 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Happy holidays everyone, First off, a massive thank you to every single one of you for bringing this project to life. Because of your support, we are fully funded and officially underway! We haven’t been waiting around for the holidays to be over.... (Read More)
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