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Enhance your WordPress W3 Total Cache Performance with APC
Author: Yazan Al-Sheikhly
Installing APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Can Enhance your WordPress W3 Total Cache Performance
This option really depends on the environment you’re hosted in and what kind of pages you’re serving. Typically, most websites are hosted in a virtual environment like our managed domains but may not have similar disk, CPU or memory resources that we deploy. If you have a good amount of CPU (1.5+ CPU cores) and 2 GB or more of RAM then I would recommend testing this method out.
Test out the APC Method to Determine if It Does Enhance W3 Total Cache Performance
We install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on the cloud servers to allow the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin better work its magic for high traffic WordPress blogs. The result is more pages, images and web components are cached in memory for quicker response times to the end user. When your WordPress website receives an influx of traffic, it’s much faster for the server to retrieve that data from memory than disk – this is typically the source of bottlenecks for the majority of WordPress Sites.
Installing APC (Alternative PHP Cache) using WHM Control Panel
1. Log in to WHM as root.
2. Click on Software.
1. Click on Module Installers
1. Click the Manage link in the PHP Pecl row
1. Search for ‘APC’
2. Click the Install link under the Action column next to the APC Module Name (description is Alternative PHP Cache).
1. Once that has been configured by the control panel, restart Apache by clicking on Restart HTTP (Apache) under Restart Services in the control panel.
1. Under the General Settings tab for the W3 Total Cache plugin, update the cache methods to reflect Opcode: Alternative PHP Cache (APC).
Install HTML Tidy Extension for Cleaner Code
1. Log in to WHM as root.
2. Click on EasyApache.
3. Go through the wizard until you reach the list of PHP modules/options.
4. Click on the Exhaustive list of options at the bottom.
5. Check the box next to Tidy.
6. Build Apache.
7. PHP and Apache will be rebuilt and restarted for your use.
Configure WordPress Plugin – W3 Total Cache
1. Log in to WHM as root.
2. Click on EasyApache.
3. Go through the wizard until you reach the list of PHP modules/options.
4. Click on the Exhaustive list of options at the bottom.
5. Check the box next to Tidy.
6. Build Apache.
7. PHP and Apache will be rebuilt and restarted for your use.
Configure WordPress Plugin – W3 Total Cache
At this point, you should configure your W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin to use Alternative PHP Cache for all components.
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Yazan Al-Sheikhly
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Installing APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Can Enhance your WordPress W3 Total Cache Performance
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Test out the APC Method to Determine if It Does Enhance W3 Total Cache Performance
We install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on the cloud servers to allow the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin better work its magic for high traffic WordPress blogs. The result is more pages, images and web components are cached in memory for quicker response times to the end user. When your WordPress website receives an influx of traffic, it’s much faster for the server to retrieve that data from memory than disk – this is typically the source of bottlenecks for the majority of WordPress Sites.
