http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/2005/03/16/wp-cache/ a Lazlo Woodbine thriller Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:29:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/2005/03/16/wp-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-3360 Ian Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:12:54 +0000 http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/archives/2005/03/16/wp-cache/#comment-3360 Very true, that is roughly the way I have been using it. I took the cache time down to 15 minutes as a balance between server load and maintaining the dynamism of the site. The biggest problem is the SE bots - every page crawled creates a cache page and when a bot goes through <em>everything</em>, 150+ pages can be created. I wonder if it is possible to add something to the cache script so that only when a page has been viewed for <em>n</em>seconds, a cache page is created, thus preventing bots making pages. Very true, that is roughly the way I have been using it. I took the cache time down to 15 minutes as a balance between server load and maintaining the dynamism of the site. The biggest problem is the SE bots – every page crawled creates a cache page and when a bot goes through everything, 150+ pages can be created. I wonder if it is possible to add something to the cache script so that only when a page has been viewed for nseconds, a cache page is created, thus preventing bots making pages.

]]> http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/2005/03/16/wp-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-3359 Tr909 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:39:33 +0000 http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/archives/2005/03/16/wp-cache/#comment-3359 While you're absolutly right, that the cache plugin probably could handle slasdot effect kind of traffic and that you and i probably won't get that much traffic, consider this. We, for instance, have a (small) server. We're hosting like a 10 or 20 websites. I install Wordpress on many of them (also more and more using the Wordpress 1.5 pages feature) and THEN traffic on all these sites together can be a hit on the poor processor running PHP on all the wordpress installs all the time :-) While you’re absolutly right, that the cache plugin probably could handle slasdot effect kind of traffic and that you and i probably won’t get that much traffic, consider this. We, for instance, have a (small) server. We’re hosting like a 10 or 20 websites. I install WordPress on many of them (also more and more using the WordPress 1.5 pages feature) and THEN traffic on all these sites together can be a hit on the poor processor running PHP on all the wordpress installs all the time

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