Nah. ETP is just fine. 1.46 secs.

The problem is with the monster site, agro.biodiver.se

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Fair point -- if I get first load below 10 secs.

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Didn't try Amazon to be honest, because the nitty-gritty of optimising a server are way beyond me.

Welcome to a sane timezone.

Not sure how that would help. Most of the people who want to access the site are online.

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TL;DR: you'll probably be better served with both …

That'll do nicely. Thank you. Moving away from DreamPress to a Dreamhost VPS has been a major headache, but I just couldn't afford the hosting any more.

Can someone here explain to me whether I need both a caching plugin and Cloudflare to speed up my Wordpress site?

There are so many somewhat conflicting articles on how to speed up Wordpress. It would be nice if there were One Right Way.

I take it you’ve both seen 538’s mega ranking of Halloween candies. Reeses way up there.

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Sounds pretty much ideal.

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Diplomat?