Description
WordPress / Avada Configuration & Performance Engineer We need an experienced WordPress systems engineer to audit and optimize a slow Avada staging site running on a low-cost LiteSpeed VPS. Required qualifications: - Advanced WordPress, Avada, LiteSpeed and PHP configuration experience - Strong Linux VPS, LSAPI/PHP worker and MariaDB troubleshooting skills - Experience profiling WordPress with Query Monitor, WP-CLI and server logs - Ability to diagnose CPU, RAM, swap, disk I/O and PHP-worker saturation - Experience configuring LiteSpeed Cache, OPcache and PHP limits - Comfortable auditing WooCommerce, cron, Action Scheduler, hooks and asset loading - Able to document findings, changes, risks and before/after benchmarks Issues to investigate and fix: - Confirm server resources, PHP-worker limits and request queuing - Diagnose recurring Avada/theme processing delays - Verify and configure LiteSpeed full-page caching - Fix exhausted OPcache interned-string storage - Increase max_input_vars for Avada - Review excessive PHP memory, execution and upload limits - Audit MariaDB memory allocation and process usage - Test WooCommerce overhead and unnecessary frontend/admin loading - Review staging security, environment settings and PHP error logging - Confirm LiteSpeed version, PHP process isolation and filesystem permissions Deliverable: - Prioritized audit report - Implemented fixes on staging - Before/after performance evidence - Clear production-ready configuration recommendations