Service 04 — Server Optimization

Slow is a bug. We ship the fix.

We profile, tune, and cache your stack until it's fast — web servers, databases, apps, and the OS underneath.

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Service specaudit ready

Target TTFB< 200 ms

DeliverableBefore/after report

ContractProject or monthly

StackNginx · DB · cache

The problem

Pages crawl, queries slow down monthly, and "add more RAM" is the only plan.

Somewhere under the slowness is a real bottleneck — a config, a query, a cache that never existed. Throwing hardware at it hides the problem and bills you forever.

What we do

We find the bottleneck at the right layer — then prove the fix.

Profile first, tune second, cache where it actually helps. Every optimization ships with before/after numbers, so "faster" is a measurement, not a feeling.

Capabilities

What's included.

We work top-down: catch the cheap wins first, then go deeper only where the data says to.

Performance audit

Profiling and load testing against real traffic patterns. We measure first; opinions come after.

Web server tuning

Nginx, Apache, Caddy, LiteSpeed — workers, buffers, keepalives, TLS settings, and the config lines everyone skips.

Database tuning

MySQL/PostgreSQL: missing indexes, bad query plans, connection pools, and config values that were never touched.

Caching strategy

Redis, Varnish, CDN, opcache — the right cache at the right layer, with invalidation that doesn't serve stale data.

App-level fixes

PHP-FPM, Node, Python — pools, workers, garbage collection, and the obvious code smells that profiling exposes.

Load & capacity

Load testing and headroom planning. You find the ceiling before your users do — on a schedule, not on launch day.

3-10x

Faster TTFB

<200ms

Page response

Dropped requests at peak

100%

Fixes with proof

How we work

Measure. Fix. Prove. Repeat.

No "trust us, it's faster now." Every step ends with numbers you can see.

Baseline

We measure the current state — response times, throughput, error rates — under realistic load.

Profile

Find the actual bottleneck. Stack traces, query logs, and flame graphs beat guesswork every time.

Tune

Apply fixes one at a time, measuring after each. No shotgun changes, no mystery regressions.

Prove

You get a before/after report with charts and numbers — plus the configs and runbooks to keep it that way.

FAQ

Straight answers.

Can you speed up our WordPress site?

Usually, yes — and often dramatically without touching the theme. Caching, PHP-FPM tuning, database indexes, and CDN placement fix most WordPress slowness. If the problem is the theme itself, we'll tell you honestly and show the numbers.

Do you guarantee results?

We guarantee measurement, not magic. If a fix doesn't move the number, we don't bill it as a win — the report shows what worked and what didn't.

What's the deliverable?

A before/after performance report, the applied configuration (versioned in Git), and runbooks for maintaining it. You keep everything.

Quote

Get an optimization quote.

Tell us what's slow and under what load. An engineer — not a sales rep — replies within one business day.