Surviving the "Viral Spike"
The Problem: A regional news portal was hosting on WordPress. Every time a breaking news story was shared on WhatsApp, their server crashed (Error 500) due to database lockups.
The Fix: We migrated the frontend to raw EJS templates and placed a Varnish Cache layer in front of the server. This allowed the site to serve static HTML from RAM, bypassing the database entirely for 99% of users.