Monthly Archive for February, 2010

Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress

Published
by
Daniel
on February 3, 2010
in Low Priority
. 4 Comments

Harvard Law serves some pretty high usage blogs, WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache weren’t sufficient for their needs, and so Dan wrote a plugin to serve cached files with Nginx. The cool thing is that it (seems to) serve these cached pages without touching WordPress at all. I’m going to play with this on the next slice we set up it; if it works as advertised, then this is the caching solution we need for the rare possibility that one of the sites gets hammered with traffic.