I upgraded the website server to an even faster one!
One more CPU core and double the memory.
For the past week I’ve noticed the site running very slow at random. My console would randomly report the CPU usage at 80-100% despite having little traffic. I spent a few hours troubleshooting that without any solutions until today.
It turns out it was some Cloudflare security feature. I have no idea how it could have caused this. Once I disabled that the server was back to normal. Why? I have no idea.
I’m not 100% sure this was the cause, but I also disabled some theme features which may have helped.
Now we are back to running super fast at less than 20% CPU usage.
I did a Google pagespeed test and just got this super great score below.
That’s with full page caching. With that our TTFB (Time to First Byte) is down to 60-70ms!
If any of you tried to order in the past week and had issues or timouts, this problem could be why.
It’s possible some of our security features accidentally blocked a few people (not likely though).
