Host with SiteGround? you should be using SG Cachepress

  • If you host with SiteGround, you should be using SG CachePress plugin. It’s a no-brainer. It can radically speed up your site by tying into your SiteGround hosting account’s Varnish static and dynamic caching, and also Memcached.

    What other host provides these tools for shared hosting accounts? I don’t know of any.

    I’ve tested a few sites that were using W3 Total Cache with consistent page load times of 2 – 3 seconds, but after enabling caching in SiteGround’s cPanel and installing this plugin, I’m able to reliably get pages to load reliably in about 600 milliseconds.

    Note: While Varnish Dynamic caching makes a HUGE difference on speed, be careful on sites that are highly dynamic, like e-commerce, event management, and membership since these sites often contain widgets that update to show number of items in a cart or other dynamic information. In these cases, Varnish Static and Memcached will help.

    Thanks for hot-rodding our hosting, Hristo and SiteGround – excellent job!

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  • Eric,

    I sure hope you see this since it’s a month since your post.

    I wonder if you could please help a real newbie understand what you’re saying. By any chance did you mean if a site has eCommerce, only use SiteGround’s Varnish static and dynamic caching and also Memcached?

    In other words, don’t use SG CachePress if a site has eCommerce?

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Eric Amundson

    (@sewmyheadon)

    Howdy bvigorda,

    Thanks for the question.

    By any chance did you mean if a site has eCommerce, only use SiteGround’s Varnish static and dynamic caching and also Memcached?

    Not exactly. If your WordPress site has e-commerce, both Static and Memcached should be just fine – no problems.

    Dynamic caching can be more problematic because of the way it works. The Dynamic cache takes a dynamic WordPress page and, when a user requests the page, WordPress builds the page and then stashes a copy of the page in the cache so it can serve the pre-built page up to the next page visitor.

    This makes page views significantly speedier because WordPress doesn’t have to work as hard to build a new copy of each page each time it’s requested.

    The problem occurs when you have dynamic information that should keep updated on the page. A good example is a shopping cart widget: if you have a cart widget in the sidebar of your site that’s meant to show visitors what they have in their cart at any time, you don’t want that information cached in the page as it can change with a simple Add to Cart click.

    Also, you don’t want to cache dynamic pages like cart or checkout.

    In other words, don’t use SG CachePress if a site has eCommerce?

    No. I do think you should use SG CachePress, but if you’re unsure how to set it up with your e-commerce system, don’t enable Dynamic caching. If you do enable Dynamic caching, research your cart system to make sure you know which URLs you should exempt, or leave out, of the caching.

    In SG CachePress, you can use the Exclude URLs From Dynamic Caching section to make sure it doesn’t cache your cart or checkout URLs (or any others you don’t need cached).

    I hope that helps!

    Eric = thanks so much for your reply! I never thought I’d hear from you since your last post on this was a month ago. Your explanation helps a lot – can’t thank you enough! Gail

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