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.
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Could just set it up on our current slice…. I think the best solution for setting up the next slice will be to clone the current one, and then try to keep settings synced across them.
I’m wary of trying to set this up where we have a production site running, though.
Hasn’t stopped us from experimenting with other plugins/caching solutions. Try it on the sandbox first?
Haha, touche although I’m still wary of messing with the webserver of a production site. We have another server or two to set up this weekend that will make a good playground for testing this plugin out.