WP Moar Speed

Table of Contents
  1. Project Goals
  2. Contributors
  3. Sponsors
  4. Servers
  5. Airtables
    1. VPS CPU Performance by Provider
    2. Bare Metal CPU Performance by Provider
  6. Articles
  7. WordPress Persistent Database Connections
  8. WordPress Performance Team Server Timings
  9. PHP PGO

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Project Goals

The goal of this project is to take various bare metal servers of different configurations and test them using our testing methodologies.

We also want to see what providers are using for hardware, specifically CPU, motherboards, memory and storage. So you’ll see a little bit of a deep dive into this.

Contributors

Here are the folks involved.

  • Denny Cave
  • Scott Thomason
  • Eric Brockway
  • Jordan Trask

Sponsors

Servers

Here’s a Google Sheet of all the servers that we’ve tested.

https://bit.ly/3A10xqx

Airtables

VPS CPU Performance by Provider

The following Airtable is a list of bare metal CPUs with some basic benchmark information as well as associated providers that offer said CPU.

View VPS CPU Performance by Provider

Bare Metal CPU Performance by Provider

The following Airtable is a list of bare metal CPUs with some basic benchmark information as well as associated providers that offer said CPU.

View Bare Metal CPU Performance by Provider

Articles

  • WordPress Persistent Database Connections

    Introduction If you’re running a large-scale WordPress instance, the time it takes to connect to the local MySQL…

  • WordPress Performance Team Server Timings

    https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/553 https://gist.github.com/felixarntz/63c05392dbf7d51cc7f8f4a424b1ff39

  • PHP PGO

    During my searches I stumbled upon PHP PGO PGO refers to Profile-guided Optimization. It is a self-adaptive optimization which means…