Performance tuning expert on TTFB tuning of php on apache2, nginx

Job ID: 33809121

Budget: $2 – $99 USD

We search for a performance in depth professional, wo is able to tune a production environment regarding php execution.

We need a pro, who can
1) measure the current situation in terms of performance values on the server side, php, network, database, IO
2) tweak the current configuration and remeasure
3) monitor the measurements on the server side to identify the status of fixes or issues

Infrastructure is available to measure internationally via servers distributed worldwide,
also we can measure locally in the LAN

The problem
Irregularly we have very long TTFBs for the first package of a website. (sometimes only few 100ms sometimes multiple seconds up to in worst case 10s)
we use mostly CMSes like wordpress, joomla and so on.
The very first package takes ages in our case (sometimes multiple seconds) to deliver to the client
We need the optimization of the very first http request/response of opening the website

What we do NOT need
- a plugin installer / deinstaller
- a CDN
- a simple sys admin, who installs some components and tries to find the issue by trial and error installations.

You are the clearly wrong person if you think you can narrow down by simply
- check free storage
- check ram usage
- check cpu usage
- check iops usage
- restarting services
- switching the hosting provider (we own the servers and the infrastructure)
- compressing better the images
- enabling gzip/Br2 compression
- installing a CDN
- checking the slow query log
- checking gtmetrix and pagespeed and tuning the issues there

Such basic check are already done and also our monitoring is checking many of them
=> we need the optimization of the very first http request/response of opening the website

We will ask you in depth questions about the measuring in the qualification. So if you are not aware how to analyze the current situation.

You need to be clearly aware to be able to track/measure executions inside PHP to narrow down the problems.
Since we already get green values from RAM, CPU, DB, Network, IO
But first request takes ages and afterwards the packages flow like rockets


Environment:
- dedicated hardware
- also vmware esxi
- apache webserver
- fpm-php
- nginx rev-proxy
- php 7.4.x / about to switch to 8.0 but no big benefit at all in tests
- Linux/Ubuntu

Outlook
- if you do a good job on supporting our team, we are open to integrate you into regular work and we will share you more tasks about google apis

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