Question NGINX caches for wordpress and Page caches

[Seeker5p]

Server operating system version

linux

Plesk version and microupdate number

6

Do I need something like WP rocket if I already set nginx cache on server level?

 

[Peter Debik]

Using an additional page cache is o.k. if you can put up with occasional high load situations, because these tools have the habit to crawl the website to update the cache. And crawling the website they generate a very high cpu load in a short period of time. In my opinion this is **** for most websites, because the load that the tools create slows the server down more than just keeping a normal website without the tool. At least page caching is only for websites with a high number of visitors. What is "high"? It may be somewhere starting from 5,000 visitors/day. For normal websites that get a few real visits a day (many websites only get 15 to 30 visitors/day) additional caching plugins are useless.

 

[Seeker5p]

Thank you! That makes sense. I don't like having too many plugins in general and since I am using nginx cache currently, I will just use cloudflare APO + nginx cache. My site is an ecom site so has bunch of products. Curious, do you recommend FastCGI or FPM for nginx?

 

[Peter Debik]

FPM requires less resources and does not need to start a new instance each time a script needs to be processed.

 

[Seeker5p]

Thank you! I will keep using FPM for now. One last question, would be matter if I add Memcached by chance?

 

[mow]

If you really want to speed things up, use varnish. However that is hard to integrate with plesk.