A WordPress-Shaped CMS in Rust: Latency, Memory, and Admin-Path Cost versus PHP-FPM on One Machine
Published 2026-09-20 · Version 5 of 5 · Latest
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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Sources
Upstream datasets, APIs, and references cited by this record.
- pgrust (Malisper) malisper.me/pgrust-rebuilding-postgres-in-rust-with-ai
- WordPress Plugin Handbook developer.wordpress.org/plugins
Version history
Version 5 of 5 · Latest · 20 Sep 2026, 20:38 UTC