Review: Engineering reliability at scale for mission-critical WordPress
The Hook Kinsta’s reliability playbook reads like an agency runbook: isolation, caching at the edge, continuous monitoring, and recoverability drills are table stakes when a single outage can wipe out a campaign or revenue window.
Why I Built It The article makes the case that reliability is as much about operational discipline as it is about infrastructure. I wanted a lightweight way to capture those signals in WordPress, store them, and export a structured report teams can drop into their runbooks.
The Solution The review highlights a few recurring themes: containerized isolation to avoid noisy neighbors, Cloudflare-powered edge caching to reduce origin load, APM tooling to find bottlenecks, and backup depth for recovery objectives. I translated those themes into a checklist and scoring model that teams can keep updated as projects evolve.
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What I Learned
- Reliability guidance becomes more actionable when it’s tracked as a living checklist, not a one-time audit.
- The best hosting narratives focus on operational workflows (runbooks, backups, monitoring), not just infrastructure specs.
- A single JSON report makes it easier to hand off reliability context between engineering and account teams.