I have done here an Nginx/LEMP stack testing:
Anyone with great experience with ApisCP try to load test same VPS specs?
I’m still learning from the start now, and I cannot beat my Nginx setup yet :|.
Specifically the Maintain client load test.
I will post stats later here once I’m comfortable with ApisCP already.
If you’re just a single-user running XenForo, NGINX will be hard to beat purely on its architecture (CPU-boundedness). At best you can use CacheQuickHandler on and ModpageSpeed unplugged to disable additional protection/optimization processing on Apache.
From what I’ve surveyed, DO has never had the most performant hardware. I build out on Vultr FWIW, but their network leaves much to be desired if you end up in a bad location.
Will that support excluding cache if specific cookie and http header are present?
I used them just for testing and comparison, I mainly use OVH and Hetzner.