WordPress VIP is Automattic's enterprise-grade managed hosting and platform tier for high-traffic, high-stakes WordPress sites — newsrooms, financial publishers, government, and Fortune 500 brands. The platform combines a hardened multi-tenant infrastructure (auto-scaling, global CDN, application-layer caching, 100% PHP execution behind sophisticated request routing) with development guardrails enforced at deploy time: a restricted-functions list, code review on every push, and forced opinions about queries, caching, and external HTTP calls. The pitch is "WordPress at the scale and reliability of any enterprise CMS, without leaving WordPress."
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