When preparing the blogs for large amount of traffic, first thing I usually do is install a caching solution for WordPress in form of WP Super Cache plugin by Donncha O Caoimh. From the plugin page:
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
WP Super Cache has simple settings, and is reasonably easy to install. However there is one option that needs to be treated with care.
If you experience slowdowns on your blog page even after turning WP Super Cache on (and occasionally even get garbled output on your pages) you need to disable Super Cache Compression.
This will turn off compression of the pages which will save great amount of CPU time, especially on shared hosting servers, while still retaining the caching abilities of WP Super Cache.
After this your pages should fly.
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I had been looking for an answer to this for a long time now - thank God I came here and accidentally found it. I use SEO Doctor and after installing the caching plugin and did the settings, the SEO Doctor still indicates my speed still needs some more work.
I'm going to try your advice. Thanks
I just started using it, looking for best configuration for my server. but it seems default settings are best cos l didnt see somewhere else different configuration. My news portal site Son Dakika haberleri has more than 5000 hits daily but they are hardening my vps :(.
I had a couple of crashes and Feedburner would not activate with WP-Super cache until I found another configuration that worked.
See; http://soleblogging.com/wp-super-cache-feedburner-conflict-fixed/
Regards
Is so good , I will find it..but it some times make my site went down
Hope this helps.. I was facing sudden traffic and gives overload in webhostingpad server. Further more they don't have any server caching that caused my site to be overloads..
Thank a lot..
Can I combine "wp super cache" with "http compression" I've made?
I always turn on super cache compression.
It run fast as well.
OMG, I have my super cache configured like this already :)... nice to know that it's the best way lol
Ah...so that's why my site went down after hitting the FP of Digg when I actually HAD WP super cache enabled.
Nice find. I just loaded it onto my blog, so we'll see what happens. Thanks.