Upgrading to PHP 7.3 to improve WordPress TTFB
This is the hottest summer in Bangkok I can remember having sweated through. So I’m happy to be spending a Sunday afternoon in my air-conditioned home office working through various issues on my main client site in an effort to improve the dreaded Time-To-First-Byte (TTFB) issue. Thinking about it logically, WordPress is the issue here. Given the client’s site is on a VPN and ‘unmanaged’ (that means I manage it) I don’t have to content with troubleshooting the stack – although one of the first tasks I need to undertake today is to upgrade PHP to version 7.3 Firstly it’s…