How do you improve Wordpress performance and scale?

Whether plug-in's or product, how are you able to increase performance.
Roland LeeA developer's "Personal DBA" · Asked

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Cloudflare

The web performance & security company

Mike Coutermarsh48Code @ Product Hunt · Written
Whenever I use wordpress (or any "static" content CMS really), I put cloudflare in front of it and cache everything that can possibly be cached. If a page isn't updated often, absolutely have it cached. Then when the page is served, it doesn't even hit your servers/wordpress. The user quickly gets a copy straight from a cloudflare server that is closest to them. They also have additional plugins for further optimization (such as image optimization, rocket loader + many more). Also - this works really well if you use something like Disqus for comments. Since those load in async. So you'll have the page cached from c… See more
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WP Super Cache

Mike Coutermarsh48Code @ Product Hunt · Written
I recommend this as well. It takes your content and generates static HTML files from it. So when a user hits a page, it serves up the cached version. The docs give more details on everything it does :). I think it's worth having this in addition to Cloudflare.
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