Siteground enables Ultrafast PHP to increase website speed by 30%

The webmaster has been making unremitting efforts to improve the speed of website opening. In addition to our optimization from the perspective of program, the more important thing is to make the infrastructure such as virtual host and cloud server faster and more reliable. Siteground New Site Tools Platform Later, in order to provide users with more performance improvements, we developed PHP settings with better performance: Ultrafast PHP This new setting has improved the speed and security of the website by 30%.

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Fast and secure PHP settings

It is not difficult to simply improve the running speed of PHP, but to obtain fast, stable and secure PHP while supporting Apache and various. htaccess rules defined by users and applications, the intermediate steps will become very complex. After many iterations, the Siteground team solved the "security problem", integrated WAF and account isolation functions to deliver fast PHP, and achieved better performance results without sacrificing security. Used Ultrafast PHP Later, the PHP performance of Siteground is super fast, safe and efficient.

Ultrafast PHP Test Results

Websites using Ultrafast PHP can obtain stable traffic. After testing, the following results are obtained:

• The page response speed is faster: TTFB drops by up to 50% (the time to the first byte), and the page loading speed is faster than before;
• Server capacity increases: the host node can handle about 20-30% more requests, and cope with traffic peaks more calmly than before;
• Reduce server memory usage: reduce memory usage by 15% at most, and free server resources can be used to process more traffic;
• The overall performance is expected to improve: at present, Ultrafast PHP is 30% faster than the old settings on average;
• Note: The above figures are based on the average of internal tests, and the actual test results will vary according to the site conditions.
• For more performance test results, see Siteground Page Description 。

Ultrafast PHP Settings Applicable Scope

• Currently used for websites hosted on GoGeek and Cloud plans;
• It is applicable to websites running on PHP 7.3 or higher, and is incompatible with older versions;
• When using Ultrafast PHP, all sub domains under the site will inherit the PHP version and variable settings from the primary domain of the site.

How to switch to Ultrafast PHP

• All new sites that GoGeek or Cloud plans to create have Ultrafast PHP by default;
• For existing sites hosted by GoGeek and Cloud Plans, Ultrafast PHP can be opened in Site Tools>PHP Manager;
• Your existing StartUp and GrowBig plans can be upgraded to higher plans to enable Ultrafast PHP settings;
• If your account is currently based on cPanel, the Ultrafast PHP option will become available after you migrate to the site tool.