Wordpress Faster caching method?

If you're planning on using supercache, I'd recommend looking into wp widget cache as well. It works in alongside it and helps reduce database queries.
It's very simple to configure also, just add the desired cache time for each widget on the widget page and you're set. Some widgets shouldn't be cached, and some you want the cache to clear when you make changes, so the way they handle configuration adds a lot of versatility.

This doesn't replace supercache, it simply adds to it. On a previous page I tested that was making about 140 database queries on front page load, widget cache reduced that number to under 100.

 

Only a small problem with WP Super Cache is it doesn't update the homepage when a new post is made. I need to clear cache manually and restart PHP-FPM for page update.

WP-FFPC works great but it sucks when a site has a large number of posts (5k+). It takes ages to login to wp-admin when the site has large number of posts. I've used W3tc with great performance too. However, WP Super cache is a almost similar to w3tc in my experience.

 

It's been a while. What's the result of this? I'm thinking of switching off ngx_pagespeed and switching to WP Super Cache or WordFence.

I have a large WordPress Multisite and one of the sites has a very active bbPress forum with tens of thousands of posts, so I need to pick the right caching option for me.

 

I wanted to let everyone know my results on this.

I have a 2 CPU / 2 GB RAM VPS on Vultr. I'm running four WordPress installations and one of them is WordPress Multisite with a massive bbPress forum.

I was originally using the recommended "fastest" caching method, which was all server-side (pagespeed stuff). But now that my website is getting a lot more traffic (we podcast about a TV show that is back in season), PHP-FPM was crashing at least once per day. On the heaviest traffic days, it would PHP-FPM would crash every 15 minutes or so. A simple fpmrestart would temporarily fix it. Looking at the FPM logs, the only errors were recommending I raise the number of children. I had it as high as 70 and as low as 5, but everything would continue to crash.

After seeing this thread, I gave WordFence with Falcon a try. But remember that I'm on a Multisite with a massive bbPress forum? Every time someone would post in the forum, I think Falcon would clear the entire site's cache again, so that didn't seem to be working well.

I switched to the WP Super Cache method and I haven't had a crash since then! Now, PHP-FPM isn't complaining about the number of children anymore, either, but that's understandable since WPSC is serving static files.

For my forum, I just had to enable WPSC's option to not cache for logged in users.

 

I just looked into this a bunch, and it's now possible with WP-FFPC to use Nginx Memcache module. This means that like WP-Supercache, Nginx no longer has to spawn a PHP process to serve data.

However, unlike WP-Supercache, data will now be cached to RAM (memcache) rather than disk, so WP-FFPC with Nginx Memcache backend should be a good bit faster than WP-Supercache. Even with SSDs, disk reads are still a lot slower than memory reads.

However, using a different backend with WP-FFPC will likely be slower than WP-Supercache as then it has to spawn a PHP process.

 

Plugin link?
WordPress › Search for WP-FPPC « WordPress Plugins

 

WordPress › Support » WP-FFPC

my bad calling it fppc originally, its ffpc