[lushc]

> the old VPS was located on the East coast of the States, and the new one is located on the West coast

> Ubuntu 14.04 on the first one, while it is a fully updated 16.04 now

Oh yes, what a completely fair and unbiased measure of response-time improvements, much like extolling the virtues of moving from apples to oranges.

[karlshea]

Yep, if his site is built in PHP going from 5.4 to 7.0 would explain the decrease all by itself.