Comments on: WP Super Cache

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:57:12 +0000

Glad I waited; admin issues is something I do not need.

Thanks for the follow up!

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:45:22 +0000

Okay folks, here’s an update on this plugin; decided it didn’t deserve its own post. I wasn’t sure if it was making the main blog load faster or not, but I knew it was messing things up for me inside the Admin area. So I inactivated it, but that didn’t solve the problems I was having. I finally deleted it this evening, and all is right with the admin area once again. So, this is one plugin I just can’t recommend, traffic spikes notwithstanding.

By: Wei Liang | ABloggerBlog

Wei Liang | ABloggerBlog — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:28:45 +0000

This situation only happened once when my post hit the digg frontpage which I think send me more than 10,000 traffic within 2 hours.

It could possibly be more considering the fact that my article almost hit 2000 dugg but was suspended by my web hosting due to the spike.

I guess the spike has to be really massive for this to happen. But that is when I do not have super cache on.

Wei Liang

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:12:29 +0000

True Wei, but I might be a bit confused by usage of your CPUs because, well, my account has a monthly transfer volume allowable of 2.5 terabytes. And, since this month I’m presently only at 3.9 GBs, I’m figuring that I’d have to have WAY more massive traffic than I have now, even if I had a spike. Y’all don’t have that kind of transfer allowance?

By: Wei Liang | ABloggerBlog

Wei Liang | ABloggerBlog — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:42:53 +0000

Hi Mitch,

WP super cache is a must have plugin especially when your blog is growing daily.

You never know when your article will hit the Digg frontpage or stumbled, which will result in a massive traffic. It will be a waste if the server is unable to sustain the increase in traffic and force to be shut down.

Its good to prepare for times like this isn’t it Mitch?

Wei Liang

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:14 +0000

Wow Yan, that’s pretty amazing. I hope this thing works well for all of us.

By: The Smiling Blogger

The Smiling Blogger — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:52:37 +0000

This was quoted straight from an email the day I had 15,000 page views,

AnHosting: “We have found that your blog was using up the resources of the server CPU, so we were forced to suspend you. You should use “caching” for this.

Please reply back to this email to be unsuspended so that you may correct the problem.”

That was the day when I forgot to turn on my WP Cache after an update.

Hope it helps…. Happy caching!

Yan

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By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:23:50 +0000

I’ve installed it and the blog loads OK, now I’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:42:44 +0000

I don’t really recall, the actual spike was about 10 days ago.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:05:22 +0000

Hi Kim. I’ve reduced my javascript also (I’m sure you’ve seen that post), but I figure it was still a good test to run for the moment.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:04:20 +0000

Wow, what a jump in bandwidth, Dennis. Stumble; does that mean you also saw a spike in visitors?

By: Kim Woodbridge | (Anti) Social Development

Kim Woodbridge | (Anti) Social Development — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:57:15 +0000

Hi Mitch – I will be eager to hear how the test goes. I think I’m pretty good with WordPress and that plugin confuses the heck out of me.

I didn’t think it would speed up the site for visitors but rather keep it from going down when there is a huge spike in traffic.

Any javascript, gadgets and widgets will slow your site down. I used to have more sidebar bling and I’ve really reduced it and my page loads pretty quickly now.

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:23:53 +0000

I called my host just a couple days ago in a total panic. My bandwidth shot up nearly 40% this month (5-15% usually). As it turned out it was stumble.

Still not too sure about the plugin though. I’ve heard and seen more bad then good to be honest.

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By: The Smiling Blogger

The Smiling Blogger — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:35:23 +0000

You’ll never want to have it without WP Cache, trust me… Usually when someone stumbles my article, my traffic will shoot up and can you imagine what would happen when I forgot to turn it on?

If you remember not too long ago, I had loads of issues with my hosting, I’m sure you’d not anything like that to happen.

With WP Cache, you are pretty much safe now, Mitch.

Yan

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:22:40 +0000

Hey Yan, I just want to see what it’s like getting one of those spikes! Actually, as I think back, I’ve had at least days where my blog got way more traffic than normal, though I’ve never understood why, but if I can figure it out I’ll be doing it every day.