How to setup high performace Wordpress site with hight trafic

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been optimizing my WordPress blog over the past few months. To keep this post from getting too long, I’d just like to briefly describe the changes I’ve made.

  1. I’m using HestiaCP in nginx-only mode (no Apache) on a Hetzner Cloud VPS. The OS is Debian Bookworm.
  2. I get the PHP packages from sury.org
  3. The Nginx version isn’t the one from the Debian repositories either. Here, I use the original Nginx version and extend it with add-ons from blendbyte (brotli and zstandard).
  4. I’ve also created an optimized Nginx WordPress template. In doing so, I enabled HTTP/3, set security headers, and made various minor adjustments to my WordPress installation.
  5. Within WordPress itself, I don’t use any optimization plugins. I only use Redis Object Cache and Hestia Nginx Cache.
  6. I also use the WP Code Snippets plugin. I use it to customize a few things in WordPress to further improve security and performance and to make the blog W3-compliant.
  7. All the images I use on my blog are in the WebP format.

All in all, I’m very satisfied with the performance, though my blog doesn’t get that much traffic.

Feel free to check out my blog and my PageSpeed scores.

Greetings from Germany
Tobi