WordPress search, offloaded
Hosting 100,000+ WordPress sites? Cut your infrastructure costs by $500,000
Accelerate WordPress search at scale with Meilisearch, optimize performance and reduce strain on your infrastructure. These efficiencies directly lower operating costs, increase density per server, and improve reliability for your customers.
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- Drop-in compatible — no migrations, no plugin conflicts
- No new servers, no downtime, no code rewrites
- Built and maintained in Canada
What it does to your numbers
- faster search queries
- 15×
- less CPU per query
- 93%
- more capacity on existing hardware
- 20-30%
- search responses
- <50ms
MaplePress reduces hosting costs, improves performance and hardens security across your infrastructure. Here’s how
Six reasons hosts move search off MySQL
The problem: MySQL was never built for WordPress search
WordPress search runs on MySQL’s LIKE queries — a method designed for
small, relational lookups, not high-volume text search. As sites grow,
every search request triggers full table scans across wp_posts,
consuming CPU, I/O and memory at an exponential rate.
For hosting providers managing tens of thousands of WordPress sites, this becomes a hidden tax.
- Spikes in CPU usage from search queries
- Resource exhaustion during peak traffic
- Inconsistent performance across tenants
- Higher hardware costs just to maintain stability
The solution: offload WordPress search
MaplePress replaces WordPress’s native search layer with Meilisearch — an open-source, lightning-fast search engine — orchestrated through our Go-based infrastructure and backed by Cassandra for distributed data storage. This architecture offloads the most resource-intensive part of WordPress from MySQL entirely, using Meilisearch’s typo-tolerant, AI-powered relevance ranking.
MaplePress runs alongside your current stack, integrating seamlessly while lowering load and stabilizing your shared hosting environment.
- Up to 15× faster search queries with consistent low latency
- Up to 93% reduction in per-query CPU load
- 20–30% more capacity on existing hardware
- No new servers, no downtime, no code rewrites
- Typo tolerance and relevance ranking built in
Why Meilisearch powers MaplePress
Unlike Elasticsearch, which requires extensive configuration and resources, Meilisearch provides enterprise-grade search out of the box with minimal overhead.
Sub-50ms responses
Ten times faster than MySQL, and consistent under load.
80% less memory
Against Elasticsearch, for the same workload.
Typos and synonyms
Automatic tolerance and synonym support, with no tuning.
Relevance ranking
AI-powered, and useful without manual weighting.
Multi-language
Built-in tokenizers, so search works outside English.
Zero-downtime reindexing
Rebuild an index while the site keeps serving queries.
If you host WordPress, you need MaplePress
Stop paying the MySQL performance penalty. MaplePress replaces outdated WordPress search bottlenecks with Meilisearch, orchestrated through Go and backed by Cassandra — built for scale, speed and resilience.
Stop paying the MySQL performance penalty
MaplePress replaces outdated WordPress search bottlenecks with Meilisearch’s search engine, orchestrated through Go and backed by Cassandra — built for massive scale, speed and resilience.
Up to 15× faster search, no new hardware
No migration required. Reduce operating costs and server strain, and expand your existing hosting capacity seamlessly.
Safeguard your shared hosting environment
MaplePress offloads WordPress search from MySQL, cutting per-query CPU utilization by up to 93% and stabilizing overall performance against search-driven spikes.
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Built in Canada, on proven foundations
Meilisearch is an open-source search engine delivering lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search with AI-powered relevance ranking. Go is a memory safe, modern programming language that powers our robust, scalable infrastructure. Cassandra is the same database technology Meta uses to deliver millions of messages a day.
Our team has built more than a dozen enterprise-grade apps, and we trust these best-in-class open source technologies to boost our own WordPress sites.
About us
Maple Open Tech is a partnership between SSP Media (opens in a new tab) and Mika Software (opens in a new tab). Based in Canada, our mission is to develop software products for the global market that respect Canadian privacy and data sovereignty standards.
We also maintain Maple Linux (opens in a new tab) — Canada’s only Debian-based Linux distribution — alongside our other products.
Source available under the MOTL
MaplePress is released under the Maple Open Tech License: the source is there to read and audit, free for personal, academic and evaluation use, and it becomes fully open four years after each release. Ethical-use limits never expire.
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Tell us roughly how many sites you run and what your search load looks like, and we will tell you what MaplePress would save you.