I have searched the forum for memcached to see what solutions different people have come up with. I can’t say I found any one in particular specific enough to use. In addition some of the solutions are more than 6 months old and in the time of technology that is too long. New versions of everything are already on the market.
Best as I can tell, WP SuperCache is part of the problem because it stores to disk vs using RAM memory.
There is a recommendation to use this plugin for memcached
https://wordpress.org/plugins/memcached/
W3 Total Cache I’m being told is a better solution, but not supported by the Newspaper theme.
We are WordPress 4.8, Newspaper Theme Version 8.0, and WP SuperCache Version 1.4.9
Thank you for your comments and feedback.
Helps to use PHP 5.6 and higher which has opcache built in as good starting point.
WP SuperCache works well for most because you’re loading static pages, which is preferred by “most” hosts as if you have 1,000 domains on a box, if they all use too much memory, not enough memory to run all the sites.
If you have your own server, consider using Varnish;
OR: also nextgen tech like https + PHP 7 + http/2 is the “new way to fly” as the entire page is compressed into one packet, not a bunch of pieces, and THAT gets cached by server.
The main issue with CPU, is to switch to using TD Composer vs Visual Composer. Seriously.
Hi Chris,
Thank you very much for your feed back. I’m going to summarize the options here.
1. Moving to PHP 5.6 as it has opcache built in
2. Consider using a product called Varnish (https://varnish-cache.org/)
3. Use a combination of https + PHP 7 + http/2
4. Move to TD Composer instead of Visual Composer
We’ll have our tech team look into these options. Based on our results I will respond back to this thread with the option that worked for us.
PHP 5.4 is really slow and a dog with Visual Composer plugin; it would spike our old server processes from .09 to 70.0 (!!!). With TDC and PHP 5.6x we’re running at .05 (!). Note PHP 7 is also good choice from 5.4 and below. Next version of WordPress won’t even work with PHP 5.4 and below, I believe (or is coming soon). 5.6 is the “in between” old moldy tech and PHP 7. (5.6x is kind of like the PHP ‘6’ that never came to be.)
However, some old hosts including GoDaddy, still do 5.4 as it’s compatible with any OLD tech, but *not* very well suited for new tech (e.g., after 2013!).
Simply moving to TDC vs VC for your page builder will do wonders right there.
