[Adam]

I recently got hold of a very good annual deal on some decent hardware. I’ll be idling my VPS for a few months since I don’t currently need it — the project I got it for will only be deployed post-summer.

I’ve been using WordOps for a few years now because it made it easy to spin up small projects on the same VPS while hosting a couple of WordPress instances.

For my main business site, I’m still running a single WordPress install — nothing else on the box — but still using WordOps. Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of ditching WordOps for my main site and switching to SlickStack (SS). However, I haven’t come across any real-world comparisons between the two — just feature tables — and I’m unsure if it’s worth the effort to move to SS.

I did try Webinoly before but ended up moving to WordOps after encountering a paywall around its documentation (at least that’s what I remember).

I’m willing to run some tests on a blank VPS with Ubuntu or Debian — whichever works best.

Any suggestions on what kind of tests I can conduct and report back, other than Lighthouse or GTmetrix?

Thanks!
🙂

[Rebecca]

honestly any frontend test is probably going to be the same if caching is enabled in Nginx and the same wordpress theme/etc is used

[Russell]

Hey Adam,
If you’re up for testing, try tools like ab, wrk, or siege for load testing, and monitor system usage with htop or glances. Also, clone your current WP site to both stacks to compare real-world performance and compatibility. Would love to hear your results!

[Theresa]

Fair point @rebecca But I did see some difference, maybe of time of the day or neighbours on my shared resource skewing this number¿

I guess multiple test different time of the day can average that out.

First test typical lighthouse.
Slickstack defualt install is with its own theme. I changed it to twenty twenty five

**Wordops**
`
Performance: 99
First Contentful Paint: 0.4 s
Largest Contentful Paint: 0.4 s
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.075
Speed Index: 0.5 s
`

**SlickStack** (Twenty Twenty Five theme)
`
Performance: 100
First Contentful Paint: 0.4 s
Largest Contentful Paint: 0.4 s
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
Speed Index: 0.8 s
`

**SlickStack** (Default Theme)
`
Performance: 81
First Contentful Paint: 1.9 s
Largest Contentful Paint: 1.9 s
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.01
Speed Index: 1.9 s
`
I’ll run multiple test using ab and wrk every 2 hours or so for 24 hours to get a average the results.

Approach is
My test Vps
`
#!/bin/bash
date > top_log.txt
top -b -d 1 -n 30 > top_log.txt &
`
My other VPS (Different Country, 21ms is avg ping)

`
#!/bin/bash
date
wrk -t4 -c100 -d30s http://test.com/
`

I’ll be running these test next weekend as I have some time in hand. If you guys think the process or approach can be changed, I’ll be glad to adapt, modify or add to it.

Benchmark test system (nothing extraordinary but good enough in my opinion for my use case of like max 20 API calls a day and a private dashboard which I’ll be deploying post summer)

>! Basic System Information:
>! ———————————
>! Uptime : 1 days, 17 hours, 43 minutes
>! Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6122 CPU @ 1.80GHz
>! CPU cores : 2 @ 1795.781 MHz
>! AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
>! VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
>! RAM : 7.7 GiB
>! Swap : 1024.0 MiB
>! Disk : 77.4 GiB
>! Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
>! Kernel : 6.8.0-60-generic
>! VM Type : KVM
>! IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
>!
>! IPv6 Network Information:
>! ———————————
>! ———————————
>! Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
>! —— | — —- | —- —-
>! Read | 133.40 MB/s (33.3k) | 1.06 GB/s (16.6k)
>! Write | 133.75 MB/s (33.4k) | 1.07 GB/s (16.7k)
>! Total | 267.15 MB/s (66.7k) | 2.13 GB/s (33.4k)
>! | |
>! Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
>! —— | — —- | —- —-
>! Read | 1.09 GB/s (2.1k) | 1.06 GB/s (1.0k)
>! Write | 1.15 GB/s (2.2k) | 1.13 GB/s (1.1k)
>! Total | 2.25 GB/s (4.3k) | 2.20 GB/s (2.1k)
>!
>! iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
>! ———————————
>! Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
>! —– | —– | —- | —- | —-
>! Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 6.69 Gbits/sec | 3.66 Gbits/sec | 7.12 ms
>! Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 7.18 Gbits/sec | 4.58 Gbits/sec | 0.538 ms
>! Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.93 Gbits/sec | 2.08 Gbits/sec | 97.6 ms
>! Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 992 Mbits/sec | 1.07 Gbits/sec | 164 ms
>! Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.15 Gbits/sec | 672 Mbits/sec | 153 ms
>! Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.25 Gbits/sec | 2.12 Gbits/sec | 80.1 ms
>! Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 938 Mbits/sec | 487 Mbits/sec | 189 ms
>!
>! iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
>! ———————————
>! Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
>! —– | —– | —- | —- | —-
>! Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 6.51 Gbits/sec | 5.31 Gbits/sec | 7.16 ms
>! Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 6.79 Gbits/sec | 7.14 Gbits/sec | 0.589 ms
>! Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.92 Gbits/sec | 2.23 Gbits/sec | 97.5 ms
>! Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 977 Mbits/sec | 1.34 Gbits/sec | 164 ms
>! Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.18 Gbits/sec | 1.16 Gbits/sec | 153 ms
>! Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.82 Gbits/sec | 2.64 Gbits/sec | 78.3 ms
>! Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 1.03 Gbits/sec | 910 Mbits/sec | 189 ms
>!
>! Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
>! ———————————
>! Test | Value
>! |
>! Single Core | 598
>! Multi Core | 1023
>! Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12186252

[Roger]

same?

https://community.wordops.net/d/2146-performence-test-wordops-vs-slickstack-

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