Wp Cache Plugin Isn’t Helping My CPU Minutes On Server

Maybe one of these articles will offer some ideas. The third one also is a link to a recent article here in the support forums that is also worth a look.

https://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-improve-performance-of-highly-commented-wordpress-blogs/

https://asymptomatic.net/2006/05/02/2327/high-performance-wordpress/

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/70303?replies=49

You can find if it is working properly by looking at the page source for any given page, the very bottom should say “served from cache” (or something like that).

To improve things? Well, your animated footer graphic could be dumped. That’s 100K per unique user. Aside from that, not sure how much you can reduce graphics.

Your calendar and categories stuff is a huge portion of your 16K homepage.

If you are getting a LOT of comments, that’ll keep resetting the cache of the given page.

Lastly, if you get 10K unique hits per day, you must be bringing in enough in ads (or should!) to afford even a low-end dedicated server which might do better in the long run — hard to say.

Other than that, would need to see traffic patterns, requests, etc, to help more.

If your RSS feeds are taking a huge chunk of resources, push them over to feedburner or something. That’s a good ‘out’ as well.

1)I will read those links

2)What about pushing it over to feedburner?? Does that mean that I just remove the link to my RSS feed from my site? Or do I have to do something in wordpress?

3)I will get rid of banner on bottom – didnt realize it was that big.

4)<!– Cached page served by WP-Cache –> on bottom of page so its working
5) got rid of categories but cant get rid of calendar.
6) low end dedicated server?? Is that something I buy (box for home) or still rent online??

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vera
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2) There are some great feedburner plugins that make life easy. Links to a couple:
https://www.orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress_feedburner_plugin/
https://flagrantdisregard.com/feedburner/

4) <!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 6.313 seconds -->
I’m not a wp-cache expert (I’m clueless in fact) I reloaded a few times and checked source each time. It always says (once). Is that a concern or is that normal?

6) something you rent — but you’d be the only one on it instead of sharing it with other web sites.

2) I think there’s a plugin for feedburner support that makes things a bit easier. Look for that, and go to feedburner.com and read up. You basically change your feed links to point to a universal link on feedburner, and have a ‘private’ feed link for feedburner to update its cache from your site.

6) If you are running a successful website, and trying to figure out how to to more, I recommend webhostingtalk.com as a great place to learn and discuss your options.

Dedicated server or other options would generally be rented/leased online. If you have enough traffic, you need the bandwidth a big provider can give you.

But, if you are liking your site, and making some money, you need to invest time to learn about reading your logs (though most providers have control panel apps that give you nice tables and graphics…) to see where the traffic is going, try to get an idea of what they are hitting that might be causing the cpu load.

-d

Modify wp-cache-phase2.php (one of the plugin files) to comment / delete the line:
add_action(‘comment_post’, ‘wp_cache_get_postid_from_comment’, 0);

When I try to take this out of the cache2 file from my wp cache plugin – my wordpress acct rejects it

Now my systems feed is all messed up even though I replaced old file. I reinstalled plugin – no difference.

This is error msg
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/.cuthbert/veryvera/imnotobsessed.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php:307) in /home/.cuthbert/veryvera/imnotobsessed.com/wp-rss2.php on line 8

I also changed my cache expiration to 7200 seconds instead of 3600…

if you follow those instructions, note that your comments will only show up changed every 3600 (or 7200) seconds — thats an hour (or two). if someone posts a comment, they won’t see it for an hour potentially… if you site is ‘driven’ by the activity of users commenting, that could hurt things certainly.

I just refreshed a dozen times over the past two minutes — the first time, it was a dynamic page, the rest it was cached. that might indicate large spikes in visitorship, then times when nobody visits for a while. dunno.

If you go modifying files, definitely jump into the Cache options page and try flushing the cache if you have errors…

-d