Description
We run a WordPress/WooCommerce telehealth and pharmacy fulfillment site, hosted on a HostGator VPS with cPanel. The site has been experiencing intermittent downtime and slow load times. Our host's tech team investigated the server's daily process logs and found the root cause: multiple PHP-FPM worker processes are consuming excessive CPU (individual processes spiking to 55%, 51.6%, and 42.3% CPU). When these workers get overloaded, requests queue up, causing slow page loads, timeouts, and temporary site outages. The server itself is healthy, this is a website/application-level performance issue, not a hosting issue. We need an experienced WordPress/WooCommerce performance engineer to diagnose and fix the underlying cause of this resource consumption and prevent it from recurring. Scope of Work - Audit all installed plugins and themes; identify and remove or replace any that are resource-heavy, outdated, or unnecessary - Update all plugins and themes to their latest stable, compatible versions - Implement proper page caching and object caching (e.g. Redis or similar, compatible with our cPanel/PHP-FPM environment) - Review and clean up WP-Cron jobs and any scheduled background tasks that may be firing excessively - Optimize the WordPress/WooCommerce database: clean up expired transients, post revisions, spam comments, orphaned data, and unused tables - Identify and fix slow or inefficient database queries; add proper indexing where needed Audit third-party integrations and ext