Speeding up a WordPress that requires user login

CMS & WordPress
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Evening everyone,

I’m hoping someone might be able to help.

I have a website that sits on a VPS server the spec (16GBRAM, 8 Core and 200GB SSD). However the website really does struggle to cope with traffic.

The setup is currently:

maindomain
subdomain.maindomain

Both of the websites get traffic on and off throughout the day, traffic varies between 15-20 visitors an hour. Given the spec on the server I thought the website would be quite fast, but it isn’t its quite clunky.

I’ve spoken to our hosting guys and because the website is behind a login we’re unable to use caching plugins. I’ve installed Redis on the server but this doesn’t appear to have much effect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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… your site is struggling with a single visitor every 3 minutes?

I dont… I fail to see how that could be Wordpress’ doing… my cell phone could serve a website to a single person per 3 minutes.

I’m pretty sure a nokia from the turn of the millenium could serve that.

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Did you also configure WordPress to use Redis? Installing Redis alone doesn’t do anything.

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I have a plugin installed Redis Object Cache plugin and I am able to flush the cache, but I wonder if it’s configured correctly. I’ll have to do a bit more digging.

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I absolutely agree, something isn’t quite right, whether it’s plugin related or cache related I am unsure.

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Make sure you are not using too much heavy elements on your pages.
Along with that, optimize your images if you are using any.
Furthermore,

  • Consider enabling Gzip Compression
  • Use CDNs
  • Look for unused plugins and remove them
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So I took a further look into this and from what I can see it is configured correctly.

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Hello, as far as I am concerned you should test Ls cache. and try your speed on GT Metrix with Redis and Ls Cache.

The advantage of LS Cache is that it works well with wodpress

You need to instal both LS Cache on your Server and install the plugin on your wordpress.
Hope it’s help…