Title: apache vs nginx
Last modified: January 7, 2019

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# apache vs nginx

 *  [kghugo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kghugo2000/)
 * (@kghugo2000)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-vs-nginx/)
 * Dear developers,
 * Recently I have switched from Bluehost(Apache) to Siteground(Nginx), and the 
   performance of my site has dropped drastically (dropped ~30 PSI score). I want
   to ask whether the design of OceanWP is built on a specific server environment
   or not? Is there a preferred server environment for Oceanwp? or it is completely
   irrelevant?
 * Thank you for reading.

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 *  [Pothi Kalimuthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pothi/)
 * (@pothi)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-vs-nginx/#post-11059297)
 * No wp.org author would design a theme for a specific server environment. It is
   likely that the htaccess has had some optimisation in the old host. In the new
   host where Nginx is the web server, the htaccess file is basically void as Nginx
   doesn’t know or care about what we put in the htaccess file. One can certainly
   convert the htaccess rules and then convert them for Nginx.
 * Can you please post your PSI test result/s to see how it could be improved (for
   Nginx)?
 *  Thread Starter [kghugo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kghugo2000/)
 * (@kghugo2000)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-vs-nginx/#post-11062770)
 * Thank you so much for your explanation!
 * My current psi(Dropped SG optimizer and turned back to W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare
   disabled currently): [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtostudycantonese.com%2F](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtostudycantonese.com%2F)
 * In both desktop and mobile result, the CPU idle time is high and the TTFB is 
   high. Is it possible that the problem is related with the server?
 * Thank you for reading.

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## Tags

 * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [nginx](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nginx/)

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 * Last reply from: [kghugo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kghugo2000/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-vs-nginx/#post-11062770)
 * Status: not resolved