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Performance Comparisons
Two options on the bench — measured, compared, and called honestly. 12 guides in the lineup, each one brought up to speed for 2026.
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Bare Metal vs Virtualised Servers
A small toll on everything, repaid in snapshots and resizes. Where the hypervisor's cut actually shows, and the workloads that justify the whole machine.
Read the full guideCloudflare Free vs Pro
The network is identical on both tiers; the features are not. What Pro buys a typical site, and the uncached-HTML default that decides everything.
Read the full guideHTTP/2 vs HTTP/3
Same pages, rebuilt transport: faster handshakes, independent streams, connections that survive a network switch. Who gains, and by how much.
Read the full guideLiteSpeed vs Apache
An event loop that reads Apache's own config files. What the architecture swap is worth under real concurrency, and how to verify it.
Read the full guideLiteSpeed vs OpenLiteSpeed
The engine is identical; the operations are not. Where OpenLiteSpeed matches Enterprise, where it quietly differs, and which build your host really runs.
Read the full guideNVMe vs SSD Hosting
Both say SSD; one answers a database read ten times sooner. Where the gap shows on a real site, and where it honestly doesn't.
Read the full guidePHP 8 vs PHP 7 Performance
Double-digit real-site gains, none of them from the JIT. Where PHP 8's speed comes from, and the staging-first procedure that makes upgrading boring.
Read the full guideRedis vs Memcached
Sub-millisecond either way — so the decision lives in persistence, threading and ecosystem. The object-cache comparison without the folklore.
Read the full guideServer Cache vs Plugin Cache
Identical HTML, different machinery woken to serve it. Why cache position in the stack decides TTFB and survives concurrency — with the tests to prove it.
Read the full guideShared vs VPS Performance
Variable versus predictable, not slow versus fast. What sharing really costs your p95, and the workloads that genuinely need reserved cores.
Read the full guideUK vs US Hosting Location
About 70 ms per Atlantic round trip, multiplied by every handshake. How to place your origin by audience, and what a CDN does and doesn't fix.
Read the full guideVPS vs Dedicated Performance
Virtualisation costs a few percent — until I/O pressure and neighbours stretch the tail. When dedicated hardware pays that back, in your own metrics.
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