Website, Lab and Wiki Optimisations

Today me and @Cyanide worked on optimisations for website and other services. Primarily the response time of the website was affected. We started by searching for a good way to reduce our websites abnormally lengthy response time. When we started the website took around 5 or 6 seconds to load when cached and 11 to 12 seconds other times.
This was  an unusually high amount of wait time for the server to respond. We ended up reducing the response times by over 10 seconds. This means that the website now loads 10 seconds faster than it used to and that is a big improvement for the tech industry boys and girls. In totality the site loads between 1 to 2 seconds. 

Thanks to @Cyanide I was able to look up all of the configurations once again and reinstall the website to check up all drawbacks and improvement vectors to isolate the issue of slow loading times and then conquer the problem by using Cyanide’s quick help in providing tests which resulted in arriving at the solution to it. 
Cyanide was more than capable of getting things working as soon as possible and with great skill and technique we arrived at the conclusion of moving our MySQL database connections from our backend network to our local network setup for quicker response. We werenΓÇÖt able to find out a solution until Cyanide provided a test script and aided in a quick response to identifying and isolating the problem.

This solution wouldn’t have come had we not investigated the unexplained longer response time from our website. There was an unusually long wait time or a Time-to-first-byte(TTFB) issue that was caused by this misconfiguration.