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Trevor.
OK, so, I have now gone and made the changes I would to any site in PHP (increased memory, upload times, max_input_vars, timezones etc), switched to MariaDB, installed Redis, added Nginx Helper (set to redis) and Redis Object cache and enabled Cometcache. Cleared the caches. Loaded the test site from a privacy page (so that CometCache caches the page) then ran the site speed tests again. It now has Time to First Byte 3 times faster again than without these changes (65ms – that’s well over ten times faster than my old server) and the page loads bonkers fast, over ten times faster than my old server.
Given that the server is in London and the free Pingdom test doesn’t have London, I tested it from new York, with the likely delays and hit on the score. Performance A (98) and 72% faster than sites tested. At this stage I still haven’t optimized the images or minified/combined the css/js files!!
You can have PHP7, I just checked the options.
What happens is that when the server is switched to PHP7, Memcache is switched off and PHP memcached is switched on instead (although note that W3TotalCache doesn’t support PHP Memcached, so that is switched off also, not that I leave it installed anyway).
I will flick the switch now and see!!
I can see no difference to page load speed in the front end or back end from switching to PHP7
That doesn’t surprise me. My page load assets cascade shows the time is now simply the files being sent. And the page is big. It takes less than 100ms to start pushing all the files at my browser. From then on in it is simply data streaming.
I am going to migrate a real domain to it next, not a staging one, so I will have to set up the A records etc and mail.
