WordPress isn't slow — shared hosting is
WordPress has an undeserved reputation for slowness. On shared hosting, your site shares a MySQL with 300 other customers and a CPU that collapses at peak hours. On a VPS with guaranteed resources, the same WordPress with the same plugins responds in under 200 ms. We measure it daily: migrations from shared hosting to our Apex divide TTFB by three on average.
The stack that makes the difference
- PHP 8.3 + OPcache: 30% faster than PHP 7.4 on WordPress.
- MariaDB 11 with a properly sized buffer pool (see our MySQL article).
- Redis as object cache: heavy themes' repetitive queries disappear.
- Nginx + FastCGI cache: public pages served without touching PHP.
With this stack on an Apex, a WordPress site absorbs 50,000 visitors/day without load average exceeding 1.
WooCommerce: requirements step up
A store adds sessions, carts, per-product-page queries. See our e-commerce VPS page for sizing — in short: Titan minimum, Redis mandatory, and a CDN for images.
WordPress security
90% of WordPress hacks come through outdated plugins or weak passwords, not the server. Our role: give you a sound base (hardened SSH, UFW, Fail2ban — see the guide "Securing your VPS in 10 steps") and daily snapshots to restore in one click if the worst happens.
Multisite and agencies
A Titan comfortably hosts 10 to 15 client WordPress sites. Agencies joining us from "unlimited" shared plans discover that 15 sites on a real VPS cost less — and load three times faster.