Any specific settings for Dreampress, Varnish, and cloudflare?

My web host (Dreampress which is managed WordPress hosting by Dreamhost) doesn’t recommend me to use any caching plugin.

We really need to rephrase that as you don’t need any additional caching plugins. See, we recommend you use Varnish HTTP Purge, which we maintain (and pre-installed for you). It’s a set-it-and-forget-it type plugin without any options. Also we install Object Caching for you (MemCached Redux is pre-installed in DreamPress as a drop-in plugin).

That said, I understand people want to use what they want to use ?? I would NOT recommend you use page caching on a Varnish site in general, as that it often ends up with cached files that are out of date.

To find your Varnish IP, go into the Panel and click on the DNS settings for the domain. The entry for resolve-to.domain is your varnish server: resolve-to.www A 208.97.157.172 — If you don’t have that, then it’s just your normal IP.

Ok got it. Dreampress lacks a certain feature like leverage browser caching, Header expires, Etag control, etc. So can I use those features and skip the page cache, object cache, and database cache?

The AMP extension would also help in speeding up AMP pages.

Thanks for all your support.

@ipstenu Thank you, Should I be using Jet pack? I have a lot of images as we are an art gallery.

Our site runs the megatron theme it came with rev slider and visual composer, whats the best way to update the theme buy individual licences for the visual composer and revslider. (help)

site was designed for us before i really had got my head around wordpress (still learning haha) i was not given the licence keys or told i would need to update, want to update the site but am unsure.

At the moment i have 7 pictures stuck on the home page that I cannot get rid of or update? https://www.zebraonegallery.com any advice would be greatly received

Dreampress lacks a certain feature like leverage browser caching, Header expires, Etag control, etc.

No… It just has those on the server level. Sometimes Google will say you don’t have it when you do (it happens on more than just DreamPress). But you can totally use any cache plugin you want to add those to your .htaccess. Or just add ’em directly and skip a plugin ?? Those tend to not change.

The AMP extension would also help in speeding up AMP pages.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/amp/ is 100% compatible with Varnish HTTP Purge. The plugin checks for it and purges if found ??

@wozzer1000 – A little off topic, but with your setup, I would recommend using Photon in Jetpack, as it handles both rather well in my experience.

I can’t help you with the updates, though, as I don’t use those, but in general if it’s got an option to update the theme, then the theme SHOULD update those included components.