WordPress released their latest version of their blogging software on July 15th. I hope to have some time to try out the new version andd examine the way it uses resources. I’m hoping to see some improvement from it.

In the process of my initial research, I came across one possible solution to the handling resources better. It’s called WordPress Light, that replaces the front end portion of the software, but limits your capabilities a bit.

Ultimately, I would like to have a blogging software that would run very efficiently on a VPS. WordPress is working fine for now, but I’m concerned as traffick builds up.

I was doing some reading on WordPress and came across some people’s experiences with it and how they switched to another blogging software or how they have concerns with the way the software runs. Some of the posts note excessive queries for data that may not be necessary. Finding these articles made me decide to do a little digging myself. I currently have this website running on wordpress and I have another website I manage that runs on wordpress.

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