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Could just be your hosting. For example, with Media Temple (years ago) I found it often took 7+ seconds just to redirect www to non-www, up to 12 seconds. Pingdom is a good tool to see where you're getting stuck http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ Another common problem, your MySQL database could be overloaded (especially with shared hosting) and more caching won't necessarily solve the problem.

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If it's my hosting (which was an eee pc btw) then why does my self-written blog load in 15ms? But yeah on shared hosting with more cpu power, wordpress performed much better.

>If it's my hosting (which was an eee pc btw) then why does my self-written blog load in 15ms?

Because it hit some sweet spot that WP blew over for your host specs? Either memory, number of queries, etc?

CPU seems to be the issue, but somehow Wordpress and the like (most CMS systems) seem to hit it while all PHP code I write runs perfectly fine.

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