New Hosting - Init. Connect. & Download faster, but TTFB slower. Why?

[Marvin]

Thanks Pat very much for your help and time.

I didn't install eAccelerator, I just disabled the two above mentioned options, Mod SuPHP and CGI, which were not enabled on my old VPS anyway.

The reason I didn't install eAccelerator was because I just noticed that while it was installed on my old VPS, it wasn't being used, at leased I didn't see it being enabled in one of my control panels (VBSEO control panel).

In the above mentioned control panel, I see 4 options:

- none
- memcached (Supported)
- APC Cache (Supported)
- XCache (Unsupported)
- eAccelerator (Unsupported)

The option that was being used, was "memcached". I switched it to APC for testing, but I saw no difference.

XCache and eAccelerator are marked as unsupported, which I believe simply means that at the moment those are not installed on the VPS. However, I'm not even sure if enabling/disabling these cache-type options within this (vBSEO) control panel has any effect on anything. I just tried to set it to "none", and webpagetest still showed me that files were being cached just fine.

I don't know what to try to improve to bring the TTFB to the speed it was at the old VPS. I may submit a ticket to see if the new host can do something about it.