I’m reviewing my dedicated server with the fact that I need to move away from centos 7 with CPanel/WHM anyway, to update. I’m wondering what everyone is running, especially with Google core web vitals now impacting search ranking and the need for speed. I’ve seen my sites drop off to competing optimized xenforo sites with better scores. I’m thinking of moving to Maria DB and maybe to Plesk. I run 7 sites on this server. My hardware/setup on this server is:
Dual Intel Xeon L5520
DDR3 96GB
RAID setup - 2X 500 GB SSD
Operating System: CentOS 7
cPanel’s/WHM
MYSQL 8
PHP 8.1
Redis, opcache
Cloudflare Basic
If you are running a dedicated box, what type of hardware, OS, control panel, and config are you running? How’s it working and how are your code web vitals for your forums? What are you doing to speed up TTFB, LCP, and FCP. Caching, CDN?