Proof Hardware optimization has an impact on SEO?
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Usually, I would create one site for one subject. E.g, I'd build one site focusing on "Food Processor Reviews".
This site is built on WordPress with a lot of custom mods & custom plugins, targeting 12 niches so far. Each subject is built as a silo hub. The "homepage" of each silo hub has a 5,000+ word article, backed with 5-10 supporting reviews/articles.
However, I've massively focused on hardware optimization. Here's what it's running on:
$40 VPS from Linode (4GB RAM, 4 CPU's)
900MB/SEC SSD
Software Used:
Ubuntu 14.04
NGINX
HHVM
REDIS
Google PageSpeed Module
MaxCDN / Amazon (benchmarking the two atm)
Percona (MYSQL)
There is no WordPress caching mechanism. NO plugin is used to handle caching of any kind. No W3, no WP Super Cache - nothing.
NGINX handles the page cache, while REDIS handles object & database caching.
HHVM replaces PHP caching, and provides much faster compute times, as well as better caching. REDIS far surpasses the object/database caching of W3 Total Cache, even when using Memcaching or a similar technology. Integrating REDIS into WordPress was actually fairly easy - three steps total.
I'm getting 150ms - 250ms loading times across the whole site in the United States (my target demographic).
I've also ran tests on Blitz.io and the site is able to handle up to 700 concurrent connections (more than 500,000 visitors/day). Exceeding this is near impossible for the audiences I'm targeting, but if it was ever strained, adding a load balancer and a second server can be done in 30-mins with Linode luckily.
The site has been live for about two weeks so far, and targets 5,000+ month search terms. These are "review" search terms, often with a lot of competition from affiliate marketers.
So far, the site has received ZERO links. Although, I will blast my PBN at it next year.
All of the keywords are ranking between #20 and #30 - which is absolutely crazy considering 0 links have been built.
From my single-subject sites, rankings like that were nowhere to be found till the 2-month mark at least.
What are your thoughts?
I know GodOverYou has been experimenting with hardware SEO.
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