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12:39 pm
January 5, 2011
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Little House
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I've been getting a lot of traffic over the past 3 days and my host has actually gone down for a total of 3 hours. My host got back to me regarding my server going down and they recommended installing a cache plugin on my wordpress blog.
Is anyone using such a plugin? I'm specifically looking at WordPress's Hyper Cache plugin as an option. I'm just afraid to install it incase it messes up my site.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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1:08 pm
January 5, 2011
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moneycone
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Hyper Cache is quite safe and a pretty decent cache plugin. You shouldn't have any problems.
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2:01 pm
January 5, 2011
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I use WP Cache and don't seem to have any problems with it.
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2:23 pm
January 5, 2011
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Little House
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Thanks for these replies. I think I'm going to go ahead and activate it.
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2:59 pm
January 5, 2011
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I use W3 Total Cache and it works great.. http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpre…..tal-cache/
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4:10 pm
January 5, 2011
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Little House
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I went ahead and installed Hyper Cache. It seems to be working fine, I think. Thanks for the responses!
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8:27 pm
January 5, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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Super cache is another one.
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8:27 am
January 6, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett said:
Super cache is another one.
We've also been using WP Super Cache for a while now and are very happy with it.
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10:25 am
January 6, 2011
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Jaymus (RealizedReturns)
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I use "Quick Cache" plugin. seems to work, simple enough to set up. I have no particular reason for choosing it, haven't tried the others.
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5:08 pm
January 6, 2011
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Glen Craig
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6:54 am
January 7, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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Super Cache works well for me, and I use it with the "Preloading" option turned on.
Note that some of your plugins may not work as expected with any caching solution. For example, if you use "Ozh Who Sees Ads", then if the first visitor came from a search engine and you have your ads setup a certain way, ALL future loads of that same page will show the ads the same way, no matter if the visitor is from a search engine or not.
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1:33 pm
January 8, 2011
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SavingMentor
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I'm probably the only Yakeze member or challenger that is not using Wordpress … but I just installed a cache plugin on my site and it made a huge difference in my page load times. There are lots of sites that measure your load time out there, but I found the best one to be WebPageTest.org.
The times it reports see to be high at first glance, but you will see that it clears everything from the cache and looks at your site every time like it is a first time user. It also waits until every little thing on the page is loaded. By turning on caching and removing and optimizing a few widgets on my site I was able to get my first page load time down from 13.5 seconds to about 4 seconds. My repeat view load time went from 3.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds. The time before the page started to render also got sliced by a massive amount, which is what the user really cares about. They want to see something happening on the screen ASAP.
The reports are so detailed that you can see how big every graphic is, how many requests your page is making, all the external requests that are made with really detailed flow charts! Make sure to check out all the tabs on your final report too, not just the summary page.
Do a before and after test, and smile at the difference :D
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2:18 pm
January 8, 2011
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Jaymus (RealizedReturns)
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thanks for the site there SavingMentor. just used it and it appears to be very useful. I'm at 9.5s for first view and ~4s for second view. I think I've got some work to do.
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