do i need a caching plugin? what do you recommend?

[sophie1]

I’m using estore, lightbox ultimate and emember. I just put up my site, it’s a video site with over 1300 pages. I dont know anything about caching plugins, but i get the feeling i should be using one. Is that right? Do you make or recommend one? Every time I add a video to the site as it is presently configured I need 4 more pages, so the page number could get alot higher. Is that a really bad/unworkable thing? thanks for any advice.

[wzp]

You do not need a caching plugin, unless you have a lot of static WP pages that are frequently accessed. Based on what we’ve seen of your site, you will derive very little benefit from using a caching plugin.

Using a caching plugin WILL NOT cause videos to download faster. For that, you should be hosting the videos on Amazon S3.

If you do decide to use one, we have support for the following 2 caching plugins:

• W3 Total Cache

  https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/using-the-plugins-with-w3-total-cache-plugin

• WP Super Cache

  https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/using-the-plugins-together-with-wp-super-cache-plugin

[sophie1]

thanks alot! yes i use amazon s3 for the vids, so guess i’m ok. appreciate the help.

[wzp]

You’re one of my favorite plugin uses; that Happy Birthday jingle is indelibly “stuck” in my brain, LOL.

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