I’m a non-technical person want an expert opinion from stackoverflow.
I own a Newspaper site developed by third party vendor who should have build it right from scratch (their costing is done that way) but recently because of slow loading issues I found out they used WORDPRESS with LEGATUS theme, anyway.
Now they ask 300 USD per month only for dedicated server hosting (excluding maintenance and other). Which is too much for me though I wanted to test if it will really help have a VPS. So I lend a VPS from my friend for 7 days and told them to show me the performance.
Page loading improved from 30 sec to 10 sec now, so still it bit slow.
Now they are telling me to buy below things for more better performance:
- Dedicated Cloud hosting.
- Dedicated CDN.
- Varnish cache system.
- APC Accelerator.
- Mem cache.
- Provisioned for load balanced (IPVS) cluster.
As most of above are alien to me I want your opinion on that. My users will be mostly in ASIA.
Beside that I heard LEGATUS theme itself is bit slow and I could rather accomplish all of their requirement buying a better Cloud hosting, Is it true?
Sorry for these long explanations, Thanks in advance.