Hello I wanted to know if anyone has used redis caching?
My hosting company suggested it to me because we are a high traffic site.
We already use wordpress super cache, and cloudflare,
We have a fairly large site with over 45 plugins,
We have opcache installed on the server and an ssl otherwise we would be using varnish,
We get roughly 50 visits per 3 minutes and when we get hit hard say 150+ visits per minute – that is when the server begins to take a beating..
So I just wanted to know if anyone had ever tested redis?
Thanks
Hi,
We have only tested wp super cache and found these settings to work best: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/ and for cdn: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
Maybe our users tested other plugins as well.
You should also choose your host based on the num,ber of visitors: https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ caching can do only so much without proper hosting.
Thank you!
Thank you for responding.
Actually they suggested it because it would make it faster overall.
I’m with inmotionhosting and I have yet to have a problem with their hosting.
The dedicated support and speed is amazing plus the theme works phenomenally with their config.
All I wanted to do is speed it up past what I have now and currently with the config you have mentioned when we aren’t getting obliterated with views it loads in 1-2 seconds.
When I originally set up the theme I set it up using your config and your config is mostly the reason it loads so fast as is – so thank you all for taking the time to put those together.
Thanks for your input, I’ll have a look around.
Nate
also note that http/2 is a great solution for https sites as it ends up serving a nice cached “the whole page” as ONE single connect per query.
PHP7 also great solution, once theme fully supports it.
Hi Nate, I get double that traffic. and we use redis using w3t it works fine. (our cache structure is object cache = redis, database = memcached and the rest apc. and also varnish. it safe us allot of CPU which in wordpress this is what you need when you get a traffic spike. (we also use php7)
BUT! w3t cache is not supported by the theme. We have no issues actually just the Mobile Theme we are not using because it will cause some problems.
Hey guys thank you so much for your suggestions!!
we are getting quadruple the views we normally get and the site is struggling to stay alive so we are going to install redis and see how it goes!
I hope it works!
hey Chris would that load even with videos?
We do journalism and alot is based on video
yep 🙂
one of the big secrets to services that speed up WordPress are
mod_pagespeed with memcache, http/2, php7 with opcache, page caching system
all that stuff really helps.
btw, with php7 only couple minor tweaks needed to theme code; and rumour has it the next version of theme in couple of weeks (sooner?) may have php7 support baked in, once WP 4.7 drops (and likely 4.7.1 based on how this often goes).
That sounds amazing!! I have just had redis installed and wow. Yeah it’s fast – and the run we are currently under (100,000) page views per day, for the past few days; it’s holding solid and loading within 4 seconds. I’m stunned that redis made that much of a difference and the theme works great with it too. Now, as for the other stuff, I will run that by our team and see what we can use because – rumor has it the faster you get the more views you get.
Thanks again Chris for your “secret” code that goes into htaccess – that did a lot as well.
Have a look at our site if you want too: christiantruther.com
(Keep in mind we are getting slammed – and will be for a bit longer, we have more posts to do)
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/christiantruther.com/C1mA5uIz
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dROv7R/https://christiantruther.com
