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WordPress performance and speed combo

Posted on September 15, 2026

There are different ways you can say or measure the performance of your web page. For example my plugin, wpbenchmark.io, is focused mainly on server […]

Wordpress

WordPress object cache – must have or not?

Posted on July 31, 2026

WordPress object cache – is a built in set of functions, that can cache some data, parts of your page or even whole page using […]

Benchmark, Wordpress

Disk cache on virtual machine (KVM/Proxmox)

Posted on February 5, 2026

Some theoretical stuff about different caching for virtual drives: KVM (and by extension Proxmox, which uses KVM) offers several disk cache modes that control how […]

Benchmark, proxmox

Proxmox – CPU stuck warning

Posted on January 27, 2026

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup – CPU#7 stuck for 22s Annoying bug, makes processes and VMs stuck. Spent several days trying to figure it out. Got […]

Linux, proxmox

Benchmark i7-7700, Ryzen5 3600, Ryzen7 3700X, i5-13500, Xeon E-2276G, part 2

Posted on December 26, 2023

Greetings Wizards! This is second part of the big benchmark of 5 servers priced below 50eur/month. You can find first part here. Second part is […]

Benchmark

How many CPU cores do I need for my VPS?

Posted on November 11, 2023

“How can I improve speed of my WordPress site and will adding more CPU cores help?” question I am being frequently asked Quick answer is […]

Benchmark, Linux, Wordpress

Does SQL Query Cache matters on shared hosting?

Posted on November 4, 2023

Query cache, once a popular feature of MySQL database engine was removed from it many years ago. Developers from MariaDB kept it and that was […]

apache, Benchmark, cPanel, MySQL

Hands on ARM64 80-core server

Posted on August 25, 2023

Hardware and CPU development does not ever stop. Some CPUs are getting faster, some are getting more energy efficient, some are getting new features and […]

Benchmark, Linux, Wordpress