Edge Layer
Anycast DNS · Global CDN · WAF
Visitors hit the nearest of 28 PoPs. Cached pages serve in <40ms globally; uncached requests get the shortest possible path back to origin.
- BunnyCDN edge
- Anycast DNS
- TLS 1.3
- HTTP/3 + 0-RTT
Performance
WordPress Is Single-Threaded.
Our Hardware Respects That.
Every WordPress request is processed on a single CPU core. So we built our entire fleet around the fastest single-core CPUs money can buy, not the cheapest cores per dollar. Here's exactly how, and the proof in numbers.
100
PageSpeed Score
wptango.com · mobile
0.8s
Median LCP
Real-user metrics
124ms
Median TTFB
Across 6 global regions
2×
Faster CPU
vs WP Engine & Kinsta
≤50
Sites per Server
Most hosts: 2,000+
99.99%
Uptime SLA
Backed by service credits
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 goes through PHP-FPM 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)
AMD EPYC 4565P
WP Tango
4,781Best
AMD EPYC 9334
Hosting.com
2,438
Intel Xeon Gold 6253CL
Kinsta · WP Engine
2,342
AMD EPYC 7551
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
AMD EPYC 4565P (Highest Single-Core)
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
Sites per Server Cap
30–50
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:
Hourly Backups (Not Daily)
Kinsta:
WP Engine:
Hostinger:
WAF & Malware Scan Included
Kinsta:
WP Engine:Add-on
Hostinger:Add-on
Median TTFB (US)
124ms
Kinsta:210ms
WP Engine:245ms
Hostinger:320ms
Starting Price
$11.99
Kinsta:$35
WP Engine:$25
Hostinger:$2.99*
* Hostinger entry pricing is for a 48-month prepay; renewal jumps to $11.99/mo. Sources: vendor pricing pages and public benchmarks, April 2026.
Real-world TTFB · identical WordPress install
Same site. Same plugins. Drastically different speed.
We deployed the same WordPress install (Astra theme, 12 plugins, 50 posts, 30 products) to each host's mid-tier plan and measured TTFB from a US East browser.
WP Tango
Fastest
124 ms
Hostinger
320 ms
Kinsta
210 ms
WP Engine
245 ms
Bluehost
410 ms
GoDaddy
480 ms
2.6×
Faster than the average tested host
86 ms
Lower than the next-best result
100%
Of test runs under the 200ms PageSpeed threshold
Published benchmark
We don't talk performance. We publish it.
The independent WP Hosting Benchmark ran 25+ tests against wptango.com, the same infrastructure your site would run on. Here's the live report. No selective screenshots, no marketing-only numbers.
Final server score
9.8/10
Amazing speed,
amazing results.
wpbenchmark.io · 25 tests · 6 min 7 sec
Category breakdown · scored out of 10
report.wpbenchmark.ioCPU & Memory
9.96/10Large text ops · 1.2s · Random binary · 4.4s · Recursive math · 3.0s · Iterative math · 0.9s · Floating point · 1.1s
Filesystem
10.00/10Disk write · ~3,636 MB/s · Local read/write · ~2,710 MB/s · Small file IO · ~1,831 MB/s
Database
10.00/10Bulk import · 0.5s · Indexed queries · 0.2s · Complex joins · 1.4s
Object Cache
10.00/10Persistent cache enabled · Write · 0.3s · Read · 4.5s · Mixed workload · 0.7s
WordPress Core
9.44/10Hooks · 1.8s · Options · 0.8s · Taxonomy · 0.9s · Capabilities · 0.6s · JSON · 1.3s
Network
9.98/10Download · ~489 mbit/s · 1.2s
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.
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
Application Tier
PHP 8.3 with JIT · Opcache preload
PHP 8.3'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 / 8.2 / 8.3
- Opcache preload
- PHP-FPM tuning
- WP-CLI everywhere
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
Storage Tier
U.2 NVMe · Hourly 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
- Hourly snapshots
- Off-site replication
- 30-day retention
Compute Tier
AMD EPYC 4565P · 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 EPYC 4565P
- DDR5-5200 ECC
- PCIe 5.0
- Dedicated cores per pool
Real-World Performance
The Same Speed, Measured Anywhere.
These aren't synthetic numbers. They're live measurements of wptango.com, the same infrastructure your site would run on.
Good
0.8s
Median LCP
Good
0 ms
Total Blocking
Good
0.00
Layout Shift
Good
124 ms
Median TTFB
TTFB by Region · Last 24h
All Under 250msNYCNew York
62 ms0.7s LCP
SFOSan Francisco
41 ms0.6s LCP
LDNLondon
98 ms0.9s LCP
FRAFrankfurt
104 ms0.9s LCP
TYOTokyo
188 ms1.2s LCP
SYDSydney
212 ms1.3s LCP
GRUSão Paulo
178 ms1.1s LCP
JNBJohannesburg
246 ms1.4s LCP
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
30–50 sites per server, hard cap
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 EPYC 4565P scores 4,781 on PassMark, the fastest per-core chip 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
Hourly 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 EPYC 4565P
16 Zen 5 cores · 5.4 GHz boost · 64MB L3 cache. Highest single-thread PassMark of any data-center chip.
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.
Container-Isolated
Each site runs in its own LXC container with reserved CPU shares and memory limits. No noisy neighbors.
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.
Hourly Backups
Storage-layer snapshots that don't touch your CPU. 30-day retention, 1-click restore at file or DB level.
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, 8.2, and 8.3 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.
Performance FAQ
The Technical Questions, Answered.
CPU & Single-Core Performance
Caching & Dynamic Content
Edge & Measurement
See It on Your Own Site
Free Migration in 24h. Zero Downtime.
We'll move your site, test it on staging, and cut DNS, at no charge. The only thing changing is your speed.
24h
Free Migration
30 Day
Money-Back
99.99%
Uptime SLA
Fast
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