Title: Fastest WordPress stack? Last modified: April 8, 2021 --- # Fastest WordPress stack? * [kesigyba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kesigyba/) * (@kesigyba) * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/) * Thanks for the response on my topic about Caddy and Nginx options. I realized WP officially recommends Nginx and Apache already =P * About the fastest WP stack, so are there some official recommendations about Ubuntu or LEMP ++ LAMP stack that is the best combination for scaling traffic, and what is the official object-cache that WP community recommends, too? There is valuable advice from Stackexchange but many different caching options I mean some guys are saying Redis and other people said Varnish, or another plugin * [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16378/fastest-server-stack-configuration-for-wordpress](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16378/fastest-server-stack-configuration-for-wordpress) * [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/199/steps-to-optimize-wordpress-in-regard-to-server-load-and-website-speed](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/199/steps-to-optimize-wordpress-in-regard-to-server-load-and-website-speed) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/) * (@fierevere) * 永子 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/#post-14293198) * It is not actually a WordPress question, usually people are happy with whatever their hosting has to offer. Otherwise _The best Linux distribution is the one which is preferred by your Guru._, which can be rephrased to – **the better software stack is the one you have most experienced with.** * In the matter of performance, i can equally name various solutions, they are +- when benchmarked, but the difference will be not really significant and will vary per set up. * PHP: 7.x, the higher version, the better, PHP8 can offer JIT for 64-bit, you can gain some more performance with it. OpCode caching – mandratory, enough size to fit WordPress and plugins, around 40-64 Mb per WP installation. Assets caching and webserver – Nginx, Nginx+Varnish, Nginx+FastCGI cache (as page cache) or Varnish for page cache, or Redis as **page cache** some may prefer lighttpd or you may try with Caddy, it will be fun to compare, i guess. * PHP SAPI – PHP-FPM, or LSAPI with LiteSpeed webserver * If you use LiteSpeed (commercial) it can beat nginx (with default setup), but will be equal with nginx if you are expert. * Object Caching – Redis or Memcached. Redis preferred (at my opinion) - This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/). * [uluxu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uluxu/) * (@uluxu) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/#post-14453045) * Installing the fastest WordPress stack with these modules: - Cloudflare (fastest DNS service) - Ubuntu LTS - Nginx + FastCGI cache - PHP-FPM + OPcache - MySQL/MariaDB - Redis (for object cache) - UFW firewall (included w/ Ubuntu) - OpenSSL or Certbot/Lets Encrypt (if you use Cloudflare try OpenSSL… amazing time saver) - WP-CLI - Git (if you need it) - Composer (if you need it) * [yasuf21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yasuf21/) * (@yasuf21) * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/#post-15023340) * Its the same LEMP Nginx stack that WordOps and Webinoly setup automatic but only difference is that OpenSSL not included. * why is OpenSSL useful more than Lets Encrypt free SSL certs? * I do not use Git and Composer. * [wudesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wudesign/) * (@wudesign) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/#post-15311967) * I suggest anyone who loves LEMP stack (Nginx) cloud servers to try Mr. Till Kruss fantastic free plugins, **Redis Cache** and **Nginx Cache**. * These are my reviews of his 2 plugins: * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-and-free-wordpress-cache-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-and-free-wordpress-cache-plugin/) [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easiest-way-to-enable-disable-object-cache/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easiest-way-to-enable-disable-object-cache/) * Most of free LEMP scripts have already FastCGI cache and Redis installed already, but how to clear Nginx easily? How to disable/enable Redis easily? That is the solution that Mr. Till has solved in his free plugins. * I have tried every cache plugin in 10 years, this is the most lightweight setup I can achieve after all my tests. * > why is OpenSSL useful more than Lets Encrypt free SSL certs? * [@yasuf21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yasuf21/) because OpenSSL can expire after 10 years, but Lets Encrypt is only 3 months and you do not worry about renewal if using OpenSSL. The problem is self-signed SSL will have a browser warning, so you must use Cloudflare to proxy your server in case of using OpenSSL. * WordOps and Webinoly will default Lets Encrypt. SlickStack will default OpenSSL( because they use Cloudflare) but you can customize every scripts. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Fastest WordPress stack?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 4 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [wudesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wudesign/) * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/#post-15311967) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics