A WordPress-Shaped CMS in Rust: Latency, Memory, and Admin-Path Cost versus PHP-FPM on One Machine
Published 2026-09-20 · Version 3 of 4
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Creators: Jermaine Harris
Same-box comparison of OxidePress (Axum SSR on pgrust) versus WordPress php8.3-apache plus MariaDB 11. Public home TTFB 21.9 ms vs 34.5 ms; serial rps 40.6 vs 23.4; login GET 2.6 ms vs 12.3 ms. OxidePress RSS was higher (~290 MiB vs Apache+MariaDB ~173 MiB). Local fixtures only; pgrust ClickBench numbers are not reused.
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