Zach Aufort

Performance Services Manager · BigScoots

Episodes: E172
Views: 79
Latest aired: Oct 30, 2026
Runtime: 42:05

Episode 172 · Oct 30, 2026 · 42:05 · 79 views

Human Support & Managed Hosting

In WP Legends Episode 172, Zach Aufort shares his path from working at a data center in high school to seven years in the US Army as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, and now leading performance and security as Performance Services Manager at BigScoots, the Chicago managed WordPress host built around human support.

They dig into how BigScoots' Optimization Pro audits and fixes Core Web Vitals issues, how Cloudflare edge caching works alongside plugins like WP Rocket, what it takes to migrate agencies with hundreds of sites, why Zach thinks "managed hosting" has become a loose term, and why he'd add two-factor authentication to WordPress core.

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