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Fastest WordPress stack vs. fastest WordPress hosting?

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    Eric
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    Everyone is throwing these terms around lately but what is the difference, is “stack” just a fancy name talking about web hosting?

    #3424 Reply
    Alexis
    Guest

    not the same thing.

    Web stack is talking about the “layers” in your website technology, for example the hardware, the OS of your server, and the other apps installed on your server like Apache/Nginx etc.

    https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/web-stacks-the-basics-and-examples/

    #3425 Reply
    Brenda
    Guest

    Hosting is talking about the company or service that is managing your WordPress site. Every web host is going to have their own favorite “stack” they use.

    old-fashioned shared hosting is usually on Apache servers with cPanel.

    modern “hosting” might not be a traditional service provider… more common is using cloud servers that are only semi-managed these days and probably don’t have control panels installed to keep the pricing cheaper and performances/security better.

    #3426 Reply
    Zachary
    Guest

    SlickStack is a free “stack” installation tool for WordPress that uses Nginx and is designed for modern (cheap) cloud servers that use KVM virtualization.

    If you use a script like SS, you can achieve both a very fast stack, and also fast hosting because you no longer need another web host:

    Fastest WordPress Hosting (For Under $5/mo)

    #3427 Reply
    Edward
    Guest

    modern “hosting” might not be a traditional service provider… more common is using cloud servers that are only semi-managed these days and probably don’t have control panels

    This is why DevOps is becoming more important 😀

    DevOps As-A-Service the future of web hosting approach

    #3493 Reply
    Timothy
    Guest

    yup.

    #3494 Reply
    Rachel
    Guest

    Fastest WordPress hosting = choose a KVM server that is CPU optimized and has NVMe SSD disk and install SlickStack, my favorite is Vultr and DigitalOcean right now.

    #3495 Reply
    Janet
    Guest

    Web Hosting

    many good KVM cloud providers to choose from.

    #3566 Reply
    Christina
    Guest

    what about fastest ISP? fastest datacenter? fastest undersea cables? fastest browser and device?

    #3664 Reply
    Cheryl
    Guest

    Everyone talks about LEMP stack or Litespeed, OLS Openlitespeed. But LAMP Apache stack is still very solid and speed is very good these days also fyi

    #3705 Reply
    Emma
    Guest

    how much does the CPU and disk storage type matter for speed

    #3736 Reply
    Amy
    Guest

    “Stack” is just meaning the layers of software you installed on the server. This is the fastest stack for WordPress servers:

    - 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)
    

    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fastest-wordpress-stack/

    #3772 Reply
    Michael
    Guest

    good thread

    #3773 Reply
    Judy
    Guest

    “Install the Fastest, Most Optimized WordPress Stack” from Linux Stans also mentioned SlickStack script.

    #4201 Reply
    Alexander
    Guest

    All roads lead to SlickStack ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    #4431 Reply
    Thomas
    Guest

    theoretically, adding Varnish layer to SlickStack could be even faster.

    #4558 Reply
    Russell
    Guest
    #5053 Reply
    Mason
    Guest

    Varnish is too complicated and can introduce instability and more maintenance into your stack, plus it can conflict with dynamic CMS like WordPress. I have seen clients using e.g. Cloudways Varnish caching having problems in their WooCommerce for example, or their WP Admin is acting goofy.

    The same is true for Litespeed’s LS cache, they are both output caches.

    #5123 Reply
    Nicole
    Guest

    According to Slickstack, stability is more important than speed anyways…

    #5280 Reply
    Tyler
    Guest

    Location matters a lot. This is not talked about much. If you are using web hosting nearby your users (in the same city) the speed can improve a lot. But, using cheap shared hosting means the performance is unreliable.

    #5988 Reply
    Lawrence
    Guest

    What stack does WordPress use

    WordPress requires PHP, but can run on most major web servers including Apache, Nginx, Caddy, Litespeed, and Lighttpd. It can use a localhost SQL database or remote database server (configured via wp-config settings).

    #13169 Reply
    Christine
    Guest

    I have never seen anyone talk about Lighttpd for WP…

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