BionicWP Hosting Infrastructure
Overview
At BionicWP, we’ve partnered with WP Cloud—a high-performance, container-based WordPress hosting platform—to deliver enterprise-grade infrastructure for every website we host. Built on years of experience from platforms like WordPress.com and WP VIP, WP Cloud allows us to offer industry-leading speed, security, scalability, and reliability, all while giving customers access to advanced tools like SFTP, SSH, phpMyAdmin, and more.
How It Works
Site Isolation & Security
Each site is hosted inside its own container, isolated using Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot environments for both security and performance.
Core WordPress files are symlinked and read-only, stored outside of public directories to reduce attack surfaces.
Collaborator access is granular, with SFTP/SSH permissions controlled per user.
🛑 Customers do not have access to underlying servers—only to their isolated containers.
Global Edge & Origin Architecture
28 global edge data centers serve as a content delivery network (CDN) and edge cache layer.
4 origin data centers house active infrastructure in primary and secondary regions.
Every site is mirrored in real time between primary and secondary servers, enabling failover and redundancy.
Traffic first hits the edge; if edge caching is off or stale, it routes to the nearest origin.
Performance at Scale
Our Infrastructure uses a custom burst scheduler that allows a site to scale from its default PHP resource allocation up to 110 PHP workers and 55GB of memory per container (in bursts).
Sites are protected from noisy neighbors, even during CPU spikes, DDoS events, or heavy traffic.
Vertical scaling on bare metal servers (no shared VPS), with active-passive failover.
Technology Stack & Specs
Component | Details |
|---|---|
Web Server | NGINX |
PHP Workers | Default: 10 per site, Burst: up to 110 workers |
Memory | 512MB per worker (up to 55 GB total in burst mode) |
CPU | AMD EPYC Rome / Milan (64 core, 128 thread) |
Storage | NVMe SSDs |
Network | Redundant 25 Gbit per server |
Caching Layers | Batcache (page), Memcached (query), OPcache, Edge Cache (global CDN) |
Database Access | Restricted to the site’s container only |
Access Management
Backend Infrastructure Access
Customers only interact with their containerized environment.
No direct access to host servers is permitted.
Core WordPress files are read-only and symlinked from a secure, non-public location.
SFTP/SSH access is optional and user-specific (collaborators can be added without these permissions).
⚠️ Note: SFTP/SSH sessions are not currently logged.
WordPress Admin Access
Site owners manage admin access directly from within WordPress.
BionicWP provides Jetpack Security, which includes an activity log to track user behavior.
Even if someone gains database access, our non-standard MD5 hash method prevents creating usable admin credentials directly through SQL injection or unauthorized access.
Performance & Load Testing
Our infrastructure consistently ranks among the top performers in load testing environments like:
K6 Load Storm
K6 Static
WebPageTest
WPPerformanceTester
It’s designed to support thousands of simultaneous users, WooCommerce-heavy websites, and massive performance bursts with little to no degradation.
Pro Tip: Sites hosted on BionicWP benefit from edge caching, persistent object caching, and burst scaling by default. For best results, leave caching and optimization settings managed by the platform unless specifically advised by support or the dev team.