WP Tango

Faster WordPress performance,
without the technical upkeep.

We combine some of the fastest processors available with fewer sites on each server, then manage everything for you. The result is a site that feels quick and stays responsive when visitors arrive.

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In short

WP Tango runs WordPress on high single-thread AMD Ryzen CPUs, DDR5 memory and enterprise NVMe, with LiteSpeed Enterprise and Redis object caching on every plan. WP Tango’s published benchmark shows a median TTFB of about 124ms. WordPress is largely single-threaded, so single-thread CPU speed decides how fast admin, checkout and uncached pages feel, not raw core count.

Last updated September 2026

The Single-Core Thesis

Why Cores per Dollar Is the Wrong Metric.

Most hosts boast about 64- or 96-core servers. It sounds impressive, until you remember that WordPress runs each request on a single core. A 96-core server with weak per-core speed will serve any one visitor slower than a 16-core server with elite per-core speed.

  • PHP Is Single-Threaded per Request

    Your visitor's request is handled by PHP on one core, start to finish. Adding more cores doesn't make that one request faster.

  • MySQL Queries Cascade Serially

    Most WordPress queries can't be parallelized. Faster per-query execution beats more concurrent capacity for a single visitor.

  • Caching Only Helps Repeat Hits

    First visit, logged-in users, WooCommerce checkout, and admin work all bypass page cache. The CPU has to do the work, quickly.

cpubenchmark.net · single-thread score

Per-Core CPU Speed (PassMark)

Ryzen 9950X / i9-14900K

WP Tango

4,728Best

Shared server CPU

Hosting.com

2,438

Intel Xeon Gold 6253CL

Kinsta · WP Engine

2,342

Older shared CPU

Avg. shared host

1,923

Higher = faster per individual WordPress request. We chose the chip with the highest single-thread PassMark score available, full stop.

vs. the Competition

How We Compare, Line by Line.

Public, verifiable, no asterisks. Where competitors hide details, we publish them.

Feature
Top-tier CPUs (Ryzen 9950X / i9-14900K)
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
Sites per Server Cap
Hard cap, low
Kinsta:~250
WP Engine:Unspecified
Hostinger:2,000+
NVMe Storage on Every Plan
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
LiteSpeed + Redis Object Cache
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:Add-on
Free Migration in 24h
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
Renewal Price = Signup Price
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
WP-CLI + SSH on Every Plan
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
Backups every 4 hours (not daily)
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
WAF & Malware Scan Included
Kinsta:
WP Engine:Add-on
Hostinger:Add-on
Avg TTFB, US (2025 full-year)
~124 ms
Kinsta:459 ms
WP Engine:365 ms
Hostinger:483 ms
Starting Price
$7
Kinsta:$35
WP Engine:$25
Hostinger:$2.99*

* Hostinger entry pricing is for a 48-month prepay; renewal jumps to $11.99/mo. Pricing sources: vendor pricing pages, April 2026. TTFB figures for Kinsta, WP Engine and Hostinger from hostingstep.com 2025 full-year benchmark (Pingdom, 19 US locations, 525,600 tests per provider).

Public benchmark · cached-page response time (K6 static test)

Same test, drastically different speed.

Competitor figures are 2025 full-year average TTFB from hostingstep.com's WordPress hosting benchmarks - Pingdom synthetic monitoring, 19 US locations, 525,600 tests per provider. The WP Tango number is our own median TTFB from wptango.com.simple=The other hosts' numbers come from hostingstep.com, which ran the same test against every host for a full year. Our number is what we measure on wptango.com. Lower is faster.

Lower is better · ms

WP Tango

Fastest
124 ms

WP Engine

365 ms

WPX Hosting

411 ms

Kinsta

459 ms

Hosting.com

470 ms

Hostinger

483 ms

Bluehost

532 ms

SiteGround

632 ms

Source: hostingstep.com - 2026 WordPress Hosting Benchmarks (2025 full-year data, Pingdom, 19 US monitoring locations). WP Tango's number is measured on wptango.com and isn't part of the hostingstep test.

Inside the numbers

The dashboard our engineers watch in real time.

The same TTFB, LCP and uptime metrics our team uses to keep every site fast, visible to you, not buried inside our office.

WP Tango
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Performance

Response time, cache and PHP workers for atelier-verte.com.

Clear cache

TTFB

124ms

median, 24h

Cache hit

97.4%

LiteSpeed

PHP workers

3 / 6

in use

Uptime 30d

99.99%

no incidents

Response time (last 24 hours)ms · lower is better
800ms before124ms now
PHP & web stack
  • PHP version8.4 (OPcache on)
  • Web serverLiteSpeed Enterprise
  • DatabaseMariaDB 10.11
  • HTTP versionHTTP/3
Published benchmark

We don't talk performance. We publish it.

The independent WP Hosting Benchmark ran its full suite against a plain staging site on our network, not a hand-tuned demo. Every number below is in the public report, including the ones we didn't score a perfect 10 on.

Final server score

Independently measured, not self-reported

9.9

0.0wpbenchmark.io · Apr 202610.0
View the live reportHow we tune the stack

Category performance

WP Tango Typical host
  • CPU & memory9.95/10
    typical 6.5

    Large text ops 1.1s · Random binary 4.3s · Recursive math 3.1s · Iterative math 0.9s · Floating point 1.1s

  • Filesystem10.00/10
    typical 4.5

    Disk write ~3,861 MB/s · Local read/write ~2,882 MB/s · Small file IO ~2,363 MB/s

  • Database10.00/10
    typical 5.5

    Bulk import 0.5s · Indexed queries 0.1s · Complex joins 1.3s

  • WordPress core9.82/10
    typical 7.2

    Shortcodes 1.5s · Hooks 1.8s · Options 0.7s · REGEX 2.4s · Taxonomy 0.9s · JSON 1.1s

  • Network10.00/10
    typical 6.0

    Download ~1,404 mbit/s in 0.4s

Disk write3,861MB/s
Peak download1,404mbit/s
Indexed queries0.1sec
Full suite runtime3:51min

Full suite, 3 min 51 sec, stock WordPress install.report.wpbenchmark.io Typical host bars are representative scores from mainstream shared and managed plans on the same suite.

The Stack, Top to Bottom

Six Layers, Each Tuned for WordPress.

No proprietary middleware. No mystery boxes. Just the best-of-breed open-source stack, configured by people who run WordPress in production every day.

01

Edge Layer

Anycast DNS · Edge cache · WAF

Visitors hit the nearest of 28 PoPs. Cached pages serve in <40ms globally; uncached requests get the shortest possible path back to origin.

  • Anycast DNS
  • TLS 1.3
  • HTTP/3 + 0-RTT
02

Web Tier

LiteSpeed + LSCache · OpenResty fallback

LiteSpeed serves cached pages from RAM in single-digit milliseconds. ESI tags let dynamic blocks update without busting the rest of the page.

  • LiteSpeed Enterprise
  • LSCache
  • Brotli compression
  • HTTP/2 push
03

Application Tier

PHP 8.5 with JIT · Opcache preload

PHP 8.5's JIT compiler runs WordPress code 15–20% faster than PHP 7.4. Opcache preload eliminates the bootstrap cost on every request.

  • PHP 8.1 through 8.5
  • Opcache preload
  • LiteSpeed PHP tuning
  • WP-CLI everywhere
04

Data Tier

MariaDB 11 · Redis object cache

Redis caches WordPress object lookups in RAM, cutting MySQL hits by 80%+. MariaDB 11 outperforms MySQL on the same hardware for WP-heavy queries.

  • MariaDB 11
  • Redis 7
  • Persistent connections
  • Per-site DB tuning
05

Storage Tier

U.2 NVMe · 4-hour snapshots

Enterprise U.2 NVMe drives with sub-100µs read latency. Snapshots happen at the storage layer, not the application, your site never slows down during a backup.

  • U.2 NVMe arrays
  • Snapshots every 4 hours
  • Off-site replication
  • 30-day retention
06

Compute Tier

AMD Ryzen 9950X / Intel i9-14900K · 5.4+ GHz boost

The single-core leader. 16 Zen 5 cores at up to 5.4 GHz, with 64MB L3 cache that keeps PHP and MySQL hot in CPU cache, not RAM.

  • AMD Ryzen 9950X / Intel i9-14900K
  • DDR5-5200 ECC
  • PCIe 5.0
  • Low-density servers
What We Don't Do

The Shortcuts We Refuse to Take.

Most performance problems in managed WordPress aren't about hardware. They're about decisions.

Industry Default

Cramming 2,000 sites per server

Standard practice at most shared hosts. One noisy neighbor tanks everyone's TTFB.

WP Tango Way

Hard cap, far fewer sites per server

We turn off signups before a node fills up. Your site always has the resources you paid for.

Industry Default

Bragging about 96-core servers

WordPress runs each request on one core. The other 95 don't help your visitor.

WP Tango Way

Highest single-core CPU on the market

AMD Ryzen 9950X and Intel Core i9-14900K top the PassMark single-core charts - the fastest per-core chips in any data center.

Industry Default

Daily backups, taken in production

Site slows to a crawl at 3am, and you lose up to 24 hours of data on a restore.

WP Tango Way

4-hour snapshots at the storage layer

Backups happen at the SAN level, your PHP and MySQL never even know it's happening.

Industry Default

Aggressive caching that breaks WooCommerce

Many hosts cache so hard that logged-in users, cart, and checkout pages serve stale data.

WP Tango Way

ESI-aware cache rules out of the box

LiteSpeed knows what to cache and what to bypass, including all WooCommerce dynamic blocks.

Industry Default

Teaser pricing that 4× at renewal

$2.99/mo for year one, $11.99/mo every year after. We've all been there.

WP Tango Way

Renewal price = signup price, forever

What you pay in month one is what you pay in month sixty. No exceptions.

Industry Default

Walled-garden control panels

No SSH. No WP-CLI. No staging. You're a renter, not a developer.

WP Tango Way

Full developer access on every plan

SSH, SFTP, WP-CLI, Composer, Node, multi-PHP and one-click staging, even on Level 1.

Every Feature, on Every Plan

The Full Toolkit, Not Paywalled.

We don't sell 'pro' upgrades for fundamentals. Whether you're on Level 1 or Level 8, here's what comes standard.

AMD Ryzen 9950X / Intel i9-14900K

16-24 cores at 5.4+ GHz boost. The highest single-thread PassMark scores of any data-center chips.

U.2 Enterprise NVMe

Sub-100µs read latency. PCIe 5.0 lanes from CPU directly to storage, no SAS controller in the path.

Anycast Routing

Visitor traffic enters at the closest of 28 PoPs and stays on Tier-1 backbones until it hits your origin.

LiteSpeed Enterprise

Per-second connection rates 4–9× higher than Nginx for cached WordPress traffic. ESI for partial-page caching.

Redis Object Cache

Pre-configured and auto-flushed on plugin/theme updates. Cuts MySQL load by 80%+ on transactional sites.

Fully Isolated

Every site runs in its own protected environment. Other customers cannot reach it or slow it down.

WAF & Malware Scan

ModSecurity with WordPress-specific rules, plus daily ClamAV scans. Auto-quarantine on detection.

One-Click Staging

Production-identical staging clone in under a minute. Selective files-or-database promote, atomic cut-over, auto-rollback.

Backups every 4 hours

Storage-layer snapshots that do not touch your CPU. 30-day retention, 1-click restore at file or DB level, hourly for $5/mo per account.

Free TLS, Auto-Renewed

Let's Encrypt and Sectigo wildcard certs, including for staging domains. No certificate ever expires on us.

Multi-PHP per Site

Switch any site between PHP 8.1 and 8.5 in one click. Test major version upgrades safely on staging.

24/7 Proactive Monitoring

We watch CPU, RAM, error rates, and TTFB on every site. Most issues are fixed before customers notice.

The Technical Questions, Answered.

Didn't find what you were looking for? Our support team is just a message away.

CPU & Single-Core Performance

Caching & Dynamic Content

Edge & Measurement

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