Our WordPress sites were loading in under 500ms while our competitors struggled with 3+ second load times. Our users kept asking: “How the hell did you do this?”
Here’s exactly how we built the Cybertruck of WordPress hosting infrastructure.
Because trucks haul heavy loads. Just like servers carry the weight of thousands of WordPress users at once. Traditional hosting uses old diesel trucks. We built WordPress Cybertrucks. Mean lean machines that can outperform other trucks whilst carrying the load.
The first time I drove a Cybertruck, I was mesmerized by its speed despite its weight. That’s when it hit me – this is exactly what we needed to build for WP Buzz.
WP Buzz started as a reseller. But after being let down by our previous provider, we went on a mission to build the fastest WordPress hosting experience ourselves.
Our team spent thousands of dollars and hours testing multiple stacks. We are happy to put our infrastructure up against any WordPress hosting in the world.
In this post, we’ll explain everything we did to build our Cybertrucks, the challenges we faced, and how we overcame them.
So whether you’re looking for the fastest WordPress hosting for yourself or thinking of building your own infrastructure, this post will help you save thousands of dollars and hours.
So grab yourself a coffee and let’s get started.
When people sign up with us, they are amazed by their WordPress performance. So we often get feedback like this:
And this:
And this:
Plus lots more. Actually too many to mention in this post.
So how did we do it?
Lincoln had it right: spend most of your time sharpening the axe. We spent 9 months sharpening ours.
We spent 9 months and $15,000+ testing every possible combination.
We didn’t just run speed tests – we measured performance under thousands of logged-in concurrent users. We tested with real WordPress sites running actual plugins and themes, not synthetic benchmarks.
For those who don’t know, WordPress hosting consists of two main parts:
Hardware is the actual physical servers where your sites are hosted in data centers. The most important aspects of Hardware are:
To run the actual WordPress sites, you need to couple hardware with the right software. The important software is:
We took the following hardware and software stacks and stress tested every combination:
CPUs:
| CPU Series | Models | Core Count |
|---|---|---|
| Intel | E5-4650v2, E5-2670v2, E5-2667v3, E5-2680v2, E3-1270v3 | 4-40 cores |
| AMD Ryzen | Ryzen 9 5950, Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 9950X | 16 cores |
| AMD EPYC | EPYC 7C13, EPYC 9654, EPYC 9754 | 64-128 cores |
| ARM | Ampere Altra Q80-30, Ampere Altra Max 96-28 | 80-96 cores |
Hard Drives:
Ram Modules:
Webservers:
Databases:
Caching:
As you can see from above, there are multiple CPUs with up to 128 cores and multiple webservers.
We cross-tested every hardware component with software components.
Whilst the full results merit a blog post of their own, otherwise this post will end up being a book.
The results were surprising or not depending upon how you think about it. AMD Ryzen 9950X dominated everything else. Even with the smaller core count. Its highest clock-speed left the rest to dust.
The clear winners:
Here’s what we found:
AMD Ryzen 9950X outperformed everything else under load stress tests. It also performed brilliantly with NGINX, but Litespeed Enterprise was the real game-changer.
AMD EPYC servers performed well overall with both NGINX & Litespeed, but couldn’t match the raw clock speed advantage of Ryzen 9950X.
Intel CPUs performed okay with all stacks, but nothing compared to AMD CPUs.
ARM was the worst performer, unfortunately.
On the software side, Litespeed Enterprise outperformed NGINX & Apache. Especially when coupled with LS Cache. Apache was so slow it’s not even worth mentioning.
NVMe disks & DDR 5 RAM modules performed the best.
But here’s the thing about Litespeed Enterprise:
Litespeed Enterprise costs about $100 per server per month on top of actual physical servers cost. NGINX and Apache are free. However, Litespeed Enterprise is an Apache drop-in replacement. This means it’s compatible with most themes and plugins. This is what NGINX lacks.
Litespeed also ships with its own cache plugin LScache and Litespeed CDN (quic.cloud). Quic Cloud supports edge cache even on the free version – something Cloudflare charges for. The whole Litespeed ecosystem is built for WordPress.
Now that we knew Ryzen 9950X was the best performer for WordPress (thanks to its highest clock speed) and Litespeed Enterprise outperformed everything when coupled with LS Cache, we faced two massive problems.
Before we dive into the challenges, here’s why this performance difference actually matters:
Faster sites rank higher in Google. Search engines prioritize fast-loading websites. A 500ms site will consistently outrank a 3-second site.
Speed directly increases conversion rates. For every second delay in page load time, conversions drop by 7%. That’s real money leaving your pocket.
Better user experience keeps visitors engaged. Users expect instant results. Slow sites create frustrated visitors who hit the back button and never return.
Now, back to our problems.
Ryzen 9950X, even though the best performer due to its highest clock speed, only has 16 cores and 32 threads. How were we supposed to migrate thousands of sites on these servers?
Well, you might say, why not get a few dozen servers and cluster them?
Easier said than done. Building a cluster of Ryzen 9950X servers costs significantly more than getting one big EPYC or Intel server. Instead of one server, you need multiple NVMe drives, DDR5 RAM modules, power supplies, and rack space.
But it is not just about money. Its the technical challenges that come with it.
That’s why most hosts choose the cheaper single-server route (diesel truck route.)
Now the second challenge.
It’s easy for sysadmins to manage multiple servers. It’s almost impossible for no-code WordPress users to manage their own systems. For this reason, mass hosting providers like us use control panels.
Out of a dozen options, there are three major control panels used for hosting:
While all these panels are ugly as hell, they are affordable, somewhat secure, and familiar to end-users.
The biggest problem?
Setting up and managing dozens of servers on these panels is an absolute nightmare.
You see, the problem with these panels is that they’re built as single-server solutions. This means get a big Intel or EPYC server, let’s say 96 cores and 50TB NVMe, and put all WordPress sites, DNS servers, emails etc on there.
This is what most companies do. But using this method means compromising on performance. Since WordPress performance gets better with higher clock speed. And big servers have lower clock speeds.
Even if you get a few dozen Ryzen 9950x servers and slap them under these panels, the management becomes a nightmare. And support quality suffers greatly.
We are a lean team obsessed with lean operations. And we needed to maintain our speed, security and support standards.
The first thought was to build our own control panel.
But this was dismissed because we didn’t have enough technical capabilities in our team to commit to this.
Building control panels from scratch can take ages. We needed a solution now.
This is when we came across Enhance control panel.
Even though it’s one of the most expensive control panels, it allowed us to launch our Ryzen 9950X-5.6GHz servers in a cluster. Not only that, all our clusters are managed from a single interface.
It allowed us to build an infinitely scalable cluster of WordPress app servers along with isolated DNS servers, mail servers, and backup servers.
It also performs containerization, which isolates each container from others, providing complete security.
Talking of security, please remember that even though control panels do provide security, it’s usually not enough. That’s why we tested multiple server security solutions and settled with the best (more on that in another post.)
It was like a dream come true for us. Expensive as a WordPress hoster, but it wasn’t about money – it was about finding the best performance for WordPress ever.
So to recap, here’s how our Cybertrucks are built:
Whilst we have disclosed our infrastructure. Still our speeds cannot be replicated. Our sysadmins have optimized the hell out of our servers. These optimizations are business secrets that may not be revealed.
A huge thanks to our team for their relentless hard work in making this vision a reality. Without their expertise and dedication, these Cybertrucks WordPress Hosting would still be just an idea.
We are ready to put our infrastructure against any other hosting provider in the world. And guess what? We will outperform them.
So here is the deal.
If you give WP Buzz a try and your performance isn’t better than expensive hosts like WP Engine, Rocket, or Kinsta at a fraction of the cost, we’ll buy you a coffee! Whether you’re migrating an existing site or building your first WordPress site from scratch, we’ll help you:
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