Comments on: Site Caching http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/site-caching/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:00:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/site-caching/comment-page-1/#comment-126314 Mike Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:28:52 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9418#comment-126314 I see you're using WP-Cache. Definitely consider taking a look at <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/" rel="nofollow">WP-Super-Cache</a>. it improves on WP-Cache by making it a 'layered' cache. Anonymous visitors are show static html copies of pages that are updated when new comments are posted or changes are made. It even stores them in compressed format, making it trivial for the web server to return the content (instead of having to compress it on the fly - it's already in that format so the web server just serves it up). GREAT for stories with lots of comments. Logged in users get handled by the normal WP-Cache system, allowing you to have dynamic sections, etc. in otherwise static cache copies. Some more load on the web server, but given that most of your visitors will NOT be logged in, worth it. If you find a story of yours is on Digg, or some other site bringing loads of traffic (and comments) you can even flip WP-Super-Cache into lockdown mode where the pages won't refresh on every comment - instead expiring every X minutes which you set - great way to handle a huge traffic spike. I see you’re using WP-Cache. Definitely consider taking a look at WP-Super-Cache. it improves on WP-Cache by making it a ‘layered’ cache. Anonymous visitors are show static html copies of pages that are updated when new comments are posted or changes are made. It even stores them in compressed format, making it trivial for the web server to return the content (instead of having to compress it on the fly – it’s already in that format so the web server just serves it up). GREAT for stories with lots of comments.

Logged in users get handled by the normal WP-Cache system, allowing you to have dynamic sections, etc. in otherwise static cache copies. Some more load on the web server, but given that most of your visitors will NOT be logged in, worth it.

If you find a story of yours is on Digg, or some other site bringing loads of traffic (and comments) you can even flip WP-Super-Cache into lockdown mode where the pages won’t refresh on every comment – instead expiring every X minutes which you set – great way to handle a huge traffic spike.

]]> By: mike j http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/site-caching/comment-page-1/#comment-126296 mike j Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:29:03 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9418#comment-126296 I noticed a dramatic load time difference almost immediately. I <i>love</i> the new site, Barry! The cafe is fantastic. I noticed a dramatic load time difference almost immediately. I love the new site, Barry! The cafe is fantastic.

]]> By: batmando http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/site-caching/comment-page-1/#comment-126284 batmando Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:01 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9418#comment-126284 Whew! for some time this morning, the site was loading only the header and tabs with no content displayed below. Finally it's back up. Whew! for some time this morning, the site was loading only the header and tabs with no content displayed below. Finally it’s back up.

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