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EYPC / RYZEN or Intel Processors for WordPress Medium to Large Business Websites
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for recommendations on server hardware configurations best suited for hosting WordPress websites for medium to large businesses, particularly those with high traffic. Specifically, I’m managing sites that see between 1M to 1.8M visitors monthly and a WooCommerce store averaging 2.5K to 4K visitors daily.
I’m considering a setup where databases are separated onto a dedicated VPS/VDS to offload queries from the main application server.
I’d really appreciate recommendations on the types of processors (CPU), Ryzen/Intel or EYPC for WordPress.
Additionally, I’d be grateful if anyone could recommend hosting providers that offer high availability (HA) setups.
Thanks in advance for any advice or insights!
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Depends on how much resources they use. Literally inpossible to provide an answer without that.
I know that WordPress needs single core performance so I'll go with Ryzen ones, 7950x3d or even 9950x.
As PHP only uses single-core, that's where I wanted to check what other folks consider for WordPress when it comes to CPU and why someone would choose over another.
Current Setup EYPC 7443P processors: 8 Cores with 32GB RAM. OLS with Redis and MariaDB.
PHP uses multiple cores, but a process is single threaded
With good caching far from every request should even reach PHP however
Im managing a wordpress site which has +2M monthly visitors, and ever since i moved to hetzner (dedicated server; Intel Core i7-7700 64GB RAM - Plesk-nginx proxy and php-fpm) a couple months ago, i had no issues so far.
Heres some stats (Hetrixtools) (30d)
Current CPU Usage 7.53%
Average CPU Usage 10.08%
Max CPU Usage 28.02%
Current RAM Usage 9.27GiB (14.81%)
Average RAM Usage 7.17GiB (11.46%)
Max RAM Usage 9.29GiB (14.85%)
PHP itself is singlethread, but PHP-FPM was spawn multithread to process incoming request.
If you sure on point optimization was on edge (caching, plugin, etc).
You can find nice high core speed for shorten execute process or best peering port for shorten connection handshake time between client to server
I (still) do run a wordpress site and I do not think that Ryzen vs. Epyc vs (relatively modern say, E5-v4 or more modern) Xeon really is important for your situation. Don't be impressed, let alone frightened, by numbers like "1M to 1.8M visitors monthly". Even doubling that to 3 mio visitors/month is just about 100k visitors/day hence -> less than 2 requests per second and maybe, let's go wild, 10 req/s peak.
Short version: that's not even peanuts for any VPS with a not ridiculously oversold and halfway decent processor!
Btw. unless your DB VPS is linked via a serious link like 10 Gb/s min. your idea to put the DB on a different VPS might well turn out to actually slow down your site. So I suggest that at least you put the DB VPS at the same location and provider (and be sure to get VPSs with 10 Gb/s ports).
I also advise you to not generously install wp plugins but to limit yourself to the ones you consider absolutely necessary.
Plus, unless your sites are very dynamic (read: frequently changing pages/content) you might want to use an external frontend + cache (like e.g. varnish).
Btw. I run my wp site in a (generous) VM on a stone-age server (E5-v2 low power) and never had any complaints about the site being "slow" or such.
It would be helpful if you told us your location/the region you mainly address.
@jsg even on frequently changing sites, Varnish with a cache lifetime of like 5-30 seconds can help greatly if req/s is high
Geiger counter detects those fancy "radioactive signals" of a Chat GPT warhead.
They make those counters out of sunk battleship steel.
Sure! That's why I had Varnish enter the stage (as an example) *g
I don't know if DigitalOcean meets your needs, Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets
This question is quite unusual, honestly—it almost feels like trolling.
Have you measured your application’s performance?
Are you aware of any bottlenecks in your project?
I do not see any numbers in your OP post at all (starting point)
There are many factors to consider here.
Yet another case of "I have a question" and then turning around and walking away, it seems...