qwertypo

Sorry, but I give up on this plug in. I just never have a preloaded cache, and the site is actually slower with it on.

For anyone else having this problem, yesterday I switched to Quick Cache. It updates the preload reliably, takes less then an hour to completely load. WP Super Cache took twice as long when it was successful. Quick Cache also recognizes and re-caches updated pages, in addition to new posts. So its way more seamless feeling for my non admin users that are posting new content and wondering why its not appearing…. or needing to clear the entire cache to make it appear.

Also it integrates into the wordpress admin page, so there is a quick button to clear the cache, and when you do, it automatically begins the rebuild of the preload. My site is easily 10 times faster now. Sorry Donncha, but thanks for trying

Donncha,

Thanks for the response. The site is not a typical blog, and large traffic is not expected. Maybe you can give me some advice on settings that can work for me. I find that many of the times I check the contents, the cache has less then 100 of the pages cached. So its failing frequently to finish. I have been experimenting with lots of settings. The site is fine if I have a full loaded cache and disable auto preload, but when I am making updates, I delete the cache and completely rebuild, I am having a hard time getting it to rebuild the entire site with out it stalling.

I am on a shared server [Ed. Link removed], and advice on how to best use your plugin would be greatly appreciated. We add about a page a week..

For example, I just tried to rebuild the cache, got an email confirmation that it completed 100 posts, and then a email saying it completed the preload. Yet only 40 pages are in the cache.

Preload may have stalled.
Preload has been restarted.

Got this email! but it only happened when I logged into wordpress to check the status

It does seem faster.. I guess it is just the shared server load, depends on when I check. But I do notice that it generates WP-CACHE files for each new page, even though there are super cache files… any way to preload those? Would that actually save me anytime or are the wp-cache files fairly light load?

Thanks for all your help. The site is way faster today on all browsers then it was a few ago. James

Peter-

So been experimenting with the cache settings, and I noticed it does seem faster, but only for the pages I have already manually requested. I have preload at 0, and GC at 0 just to keep hosting the same files. I noticed that it is updating the WP-CACHE files every time I request a page, and those pages will then load quickly on a second request, but the super cache files, seem to be available for each page, but I am assuming its not hosting them if it is generating a new cache file per each request. Am I missing something? Currently the I have 30 WP-CACHE files, and 246 WP-Super-Cache files…. It seems the 30 pages in the WP-CACHE are the ones that do load quickly, but since I have so many files, I can’t list to verify. Anyway to use preload to generate the WP-CACHE?

Thanks!

Yes. I did review the link, and I am debating that issue right now. I do want a reliable host indeed, but the jump up in expense is a big one… so I need to consider all options. I was hoping I could deal with most of my complaints via the WP-Cache… so I will allow that a few days to better gauge its performance. I tried setting the preload to 30 minutes, and it seems it doesnt reload anything since nothing has changed. Does that seem like what you would expect? It was what I hoped…. before that I thinking of setting it to 1440 or 2880 just to limit the rebuilds.

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I take that back, just logged back in and it is rebuilding the entire cache… oh well. i guess I will go for 1440.

For some reason I don’t receive any emails during this process, no matter what setting I have, and I have tried a few different addresses, and nothing in my spam filter.

HA! Figures. I complained to them about the slow speed issue before adding the WP-Cache… they of course told me they were “unable to recreate the issue” and that “the site is very snappy on our end” and basically blamed my ISP.

Right now I am paying $3.74 per month… hard to beat, what hosting would you recommend I consider?

On a side note… I have noticed that since I have adjusted the settings on the cache… not sure which setting did it, I get the occasional 500 error trying to open the login page for wordpress… and also trying to navigate the administration pages. Reloading then opens it fine.

Peter-

“Currently caching from post 100 to 200.”

“WP-Cache (45.00KB)

* 13 Cached Pages
* 0 Expired Pages

WP-Super-Cache (3.25MB)

* 199 Cached Pages
* 0 Expired Pages”

out of 232 Pages it is mostly cached at the moment.

It is godaddy, trying to keep the cost down… but possibly not worth it. I was hoping I could solve the problem with caching…

James

Thats a redirect to the site… thanks for the help

I notice that only publishing a brand new page clears the cache.

Changing a draft to published, a published page to a draft, moving a page to the trash, changing a pages name, priority or slug will not clear the cache. Any way to change that?

thanks for your response.

I only have 14 “posts” at the moment, and update those rarely.

Mainly we are dealing with the site in the form of “pages”, currently I have 238.

So if I set GC to 0, and preload cycle to 60 minutes, will the cache actually be regenerated every 60 minutes? or only if the cache was cleared? Hopefully only once cleared… so then I would set it to 30?

I would like to assume that the slow pages have been cached, only because it says I have too many cached pages to show content.

It does seem to be faster now… but really depends on the time of day, and not sure if its due to GC. I will set it to 0 now and see how that works.

Thanks Peter

James

The issue is for me, is some pages seem to load immediately and some take a long time. It seems pages that are caches already pop right up, and expired pages take 30+ seconds to respond. I would like the pages to never expire?