Telling real performance from a caching illusion
They told you: "our servers made your site 5x faster." No, a cache plugin did, and you could've installed it anywhere.
— Test a logged-in page or a ?nocache=1 URL. That's the real server speed.
— Add a random query string to bust cache, re-run curl TTFB. The naked number is the truth.
— Check what's doing the work: server-level LiteSpeed, or a portable plugin you own?
— Disable their "turbo" toggle for a day and measure the drop.
Follow the money: they sell you the cache as their magic so leaving feels scary.
Reality: a cached homepage is the easiest lie in hosting.
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Telling real performance from a caching illusion
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