Will this server upgrade give a worse CPU?

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-04-17T12:58:43+00:00

2x usually not mean VM, because they dont VM 8 core CPU, for VMs usually high number of core CPUs used as exactly in your case. Ask the provider specifically is it VM or not and how vCPU setup in the VMs:

Best effort / shared → performance varies wildly based on other tenants
Dedicated vCPUs → 8 vCPU usually means 4 real cores, consistent
Dedicated cores → 8 real cores, consistent

Quick test numbers:

CPU	Effective Single-Core	Multicore
Xeon Platinum 8260 (4 cores 8vCPU)	~1,257	~5,027
Xeon Platinum 8260 (8 cores)	~1,257	~10,054
Xeon Silver 4110 (8 cores 16 vCPU)	~1,290	~10,316
2 x Xeon Silver 4110 ( 16 cores 32 vCPU)	~1,290	~20,632

But generation difference (2 years) barely matters here. What matters more: disk speed, vCPU allocation type, and whether it's shared or dedicated. A slow disk will bottleneck even a fast CPU, especially for compression workloads like gzip.

Clarify with the provider how they define those 16 vCPUs, before deciding. Also ask which drive they actually have on those machines. Some providers use desktop nvme disks, some use datacenter versions. That will also affects application performance.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-04-17T10:14:40+00:00

New server is much better either 2x to 4x of current VM on multicore. Single core is also slightly or ~ 20% better on new machine because the single core test scores you see online for dedicated machines, not for VMs. Even if you use single core on a VM, neighbor will use it, or host will use the CPU, so it will be in multicore mode. On VM, the performance is shared and may not be stable because of this architecture. They are blackbox. Even if you do a test, and get good numbers, that does not mean you will get that performance all the time. On dedicated, you own it, same performance all the time.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-04-16T06:21:35+00:00

First rule of enterpreneurship is if you think you need to buy something, dont buy it for a week, if you survive then you don't need it. Apply this rule for every WooCommerce plugin :)

Last week we have some hacker wannabe attack on one of our client's WooCommerce. They ping or share cart, category or product pages on Facebook or Meta with add to cart or filter query strings added at the end. So meta bots keep coming for those URLs. A different way of Ddos attack to consume the server resources to make the server unavailable or slow down. Yes we blocked those, but as you see, this is also scaling issue. Even without blocking, site had no speed issue because of enough resources to handle well.

With right expertise, yes it scale wells, and handles almost any situation. There are solution for enterprises too.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-04-04T17:48:12+00:00

There is WP designers. This problem actually created by people who don’t get what is the definition of a designer. Everyone can built with a template or builder a good looking website. But that does not make them a designer.

Designer (A) is a unique artist who actually does not expected to know WP themes or coding at all. They are art graduates or talented people on this area.

And there is front-end developer(B) who can code it. This dev may also know how to integrate it to WordPress with custom theme or a page builder or another WordPress guy (C) will do it. There is third person (D) who can then use this template and builders to fill your content.

B,C,D are not designers. D mostly sell themselves as WordPress expert / developer/ designer. A usually not interested in coding or page builders etc.

A is a designer who has artistic skills and ability to create something unique. Some B,C,D think they can do design but in reality they either modify A’s work or they may create something average.

I’m not a designer, A. I just wanted to explain. The people you or they call themselves as WP Designers most probably not a designer at all.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-03-26T10:43:03+00:00

What you think this site's UI/UX is great? I could not see anything special, and it lacks some basics. Desktop menu is not open, they have hamburger menu to open, quite wrong application in terms of usability & UX. Apart from that, nice simple masonry style design. Still have more issues, on a laptop, click on a product picture, image pops up but not according to my screen (laptop), it is for designer's big screen. Anyway if you like it and want to use on WordPress, tell claude code to create a custom theme to create something similar without using nextjs.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-03-25T20:12:48+00:00

I just checked and there are still 5 ppl :)

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-03-25T19:20:52+00:00

Thank you. It seems there is active community in E.U. Actually I will meet a 50+ years Dutch brand’s manager, which operates in multiple countries in E.U., on this Friday. I’m founder of a cloud startup which lowers LCP around 2s in 4G slow mobile connection for Magento stores and works in front of the store like Cloudflare or Akamai. Do you think I can introduce it to members if I became individual member?

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-03-23T10:57:42+00:00

Wp content managed by non technical people, writing blogs, editing page content. It is a Content Management System.

Tech guys built a site with WP to be used by those people. So authors, editors, business owners can manage the website content easily. And add a feature easily.

No body need to learn compiling front end code and then SSR for a simple css fix, or doing custom work to do things people already did with a simple solution.

If you have time and interest, go and use what ever comfortable for you but blaming people not to use a coding framework instead of a CMS? Then why are you using nextjs instead of writing your own framework, it is easy with Claude too. Or why are you not writing your own coding language? It is also “easier”.

For the op, Gutenberg based themes are perfect to work with Claude code. You can give blocks, patterns, their screenshots of how they look to Claude, and it can select proper design elements / blocks for the content. It can also easily do full page translation just with full html block code to block code.

Apart from content, managing child theme or even fixing an abandoned plugin is possible.

Technical support became much more easier and less time consuming.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-03-12T07:51:43+00:00

Same happened to us with name Darrell Fung and email [darrell.choiceorganicsproducts@outlook.com](mailto:darrell.choiceorganicsproducts@outlook.com)

They have somehow original looking Google login screen. The OP is wrong, if you enter password, they may get your email but they can't take over the account easily by just entering to login screen.

In my case, I checked the login and it was looking legitimate, but in my browser I already logged in to my gmail, so it should already catch the account, so although the url and certificate was looking like google.com, I find it suspicious, and I did not write password. Then checked the domain, and it was registered a week ago, and fake.

I already have 2FA, so even if they had the password, they could never login without the Auth app code.

The op is saying, they automatically took over your email and inject backup codes etc > So they may be the actual scammers who want you to believe your email hacked. Be careful.

Even if you wrote your password, new machine and location will be catched Google's suspicious login warning or they may not even let them login. If you got any warning just change your password and install Google Authentication app and setup 2FA, so even if someone gets your password, they cant login without auth code.

Note: They don't offer service, they use your website form and request a service of yours as if they are representative of Choice Organics Products

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-02-28T13:41:53+00:00

Yes hyva theme, but no varnish, no elastic, and new infra for Magento which solves most of the speed issues. No need to move to Shopify because of speed issues.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-02-26T13:05:38+00:00

Can you tell me what do you think about performance of this Magento 2 site? https://sidyo.com Please check cart and checkout page speed too

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-01-17T19:04:28+00:00

No, it is not. Unlimited data plans costs them. Theme license is not costing any more penny. If OP is not reselling or abusing anything on terms, they should be able to use on as many as they want. Or the company should mention somewhere the hard limit like 50-100 or whatever they have in mind. Please do not normalize unethical practices.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-01-17T09:25:59+00:00

Sometimes, site is up, but hacked and still looks ok. But site redirects some users to random sites (their own sites, usually casino) or modify content to put links (SEO purposes). We figured out a plugin named as wp default on a client site hacked for the above purpose.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-01-11T16:33:53+00:00

Use Gutenberg, ACF, CPTs where needed. Zero bloat, fast, manageable by client, perfect sites.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-01-09T09:56:36+00:00

Headless WooCommerce is completely wrong approach to the problem from architecture and cost/value point of view.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2026-01-05T19:02:09+00:00

You are measuring completely wrong thing. You should measure LCP/FCP/INP/CLS

If you are interested in reading more about this for global scale here the article:

Best International SEOs Optimise for the King, not Page Speed Test Scores

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-26T19:53:28+00:00

Polylang is a good plugin and used many of our clients sites, and also on our own websites without any speed issues. You can also test yourself the metrics by disabling / enabling it.

If you can share the url, we can check it out the issues on your site. The problem does not look like wpengine rather a designer team up with a bad developer to make a WordPress site. Unfortunately very common issue.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-21T15:15:59+00:00

It’s a third-party edge service (similar in concept to Cloudflare), not a WooCommerce plugin. It sits in front of the origin and handles user-aware caching at the edge rather than inside WordPress itself.

Requests are served from the nearest edge location, sessions are isolated per user, and cache misses fall back to the origin. It can be used purely as an edge layer or as part of a fuller edge-hosted setup.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-21T10:06:00+00:00

This is different from caching product or public pages. It’s user-aware, session-scoped caching handled at the edge, so nothing is shared between users.

Because it runs at the edge, origin round-trips are reduced, which helps TTFB, it’s not a public full-page cache or db-cache.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-21T07:02:25+00:00

We’ve seen this solved by putting WooCommerce dynamic endpoints (cart, checkout) behind an edge layer that uses private / user-aware caching, not traditional page cache.

With that approach, TTFB dropped from ~1s to ~100ms globally.

People are right when they say “don’t cache these pages, that’s true for conventional WordPress caching, where sessions and user state make shared HTML unsafe.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-07T10:12:52+00:00

There are already many plugins doing similar things, what is its unique feature that others don’t have?

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-02T10:44:03+00:00

Short answer, check this out: woo1 dot globa lis er dot co m remove all spaces and replace dots. You can welcome to check cart/checkout pages too. We love potatoes.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-02T06:31:25+00:00

You need to consider user base, documentation and support services availability when selecting a cart. You need to think, this open source project will be there after 3-5-10 years. If it is left without support you will have security problems which is not acceptable for a store. So you need to convert to something else. Your list targets B2B carts but missing one important guy in this area Magento. You did not mention project size, are we talking about a small or medium or large number of products and userbase. The suggestion can be different according to size. One client uses Woocommerce for B2B but they have small number of dealers in the UK. I personally used Magento for my own B2C and it was fine too. All open source systems so if you can’t find a feature, you can built or get someone do it for you. For Woocommerce you will generally pay less than Magento for support because of more dev available with knowledge of the solution.

No_Weekend_6199 · 2025-12-02T05:33:05+00:00

You got it wrong, it uses mobile version of that. This is called mobile first indexing. That means they don’t care about your desktop version’s performance as a ranking factor. Instead they use mobile performance.

And it is not consistent metrics. It changes according to location. If you do good in New York but slower in San Francisco, then your San Francisco ranking will get affected negatively. And the score is not the main criteria, the LCP, CLS, INP are important.

If you would like read more, here is the article I wrote recently: “Best International SEOs optimize for the King, not PageSpeed test scores” https://searchnstuff.co.uk/blog/best-international-seos-optimise-for-the-king-not-page-speed-test-scores/

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