Free, proxied nameserver besides Cloudflare for Wordpress

I tested running the sites on a different server at home with same result. Also uninstalled any UTM software (pfSense) running on both servers used in testing which I though at first bottlenecking the network traffic. Home network is blanketed on VPN via router with VPN client with Stubby DNS resolver using Cloudflare DNS. The server is port forwarded right & routed off VPN tunnel via sellective/policy based routing.

I already updated the server software (Apache, PHP, MariaDB) & got perfect score on health check. Also stopped using Wordfence as it's too redundant as Cloudflare DNS already firewalled. I used WP Rocket in the past but somehow using it on sites make them even slower so I opted with Autoptimize instead & Imagify for image optimization. Also disabled lazyloading & just used caching & auto minification of Javascript, CSS & HTML via Cloudflare to avoid image optimization conflicts.

Anyway, I rebuilt the sites using Flatsome theme that I used in the past. Removed any slider images. Webpage test still failing on First Byte.

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