First byte time on first run

[Cloudmaster]

Thanks for all the responses

DNS has always been provided by Named, and on my original test I shared the link to that was fast, it was the http request that was slowing things down.

I'm now doing PHP opcode caching, Wordpress is connecting to MariaDB via socket, and test results seem to be fairly uniform irrispective of when they're done, so I think I'm where I need to be now. Much still to learn about this caching and it will take me time to get everything right, but I think my site's consistently fast enough now.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/171201...0dbc99090/