Better caching plugin than W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache is rarely updated and is not officially compatible with WP 4.4 as of yet. Many people are speculating that the author may have even abandoned this plugin. Issues with WP 4.4 are being reported and are not resolved. I would prefer a more stable and regularly updated caching plugin.
Melissa
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UPDATE: Breeze has now been made default caching plugin for all new WordPress apps on Cloudways Platform excluding ‘Clean WordPress’ app.
For existing apps, user can directly installed it through WP Admin panel. For instructions please follow this KB: https://support.cloudways.com/breeze-wordpress-cache-configuration/
Cloudways Team.
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Sam
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I think you guys should create your own cache for wordpress to have competitive advantage. I don't know how much percentage of your customer base is Wordpress, but I can bet it is huge. When I compare you folks with WPengine (who has their own Evercache https://wpengine.com/scale-to-millions-of-hits-a-day-or-hour/) and Pantheon (where you are not allowed to run external cache as their infrastructure takes care of it), you guys run shy when it comes to caching.
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Greg Dietrich
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I feel like I've used all of the caching plugins out there...bottom line, you get what you pay for and I pay for WP Rocket (http://wp-rocket.me/). I've found nothing better.
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Daniel
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And please, make wordfence optional as well. We use CW for a lot of staging servers etc, and it's a massive pain having to deal with these two plugins every single time we set up a WP app for just testing.
These plugins are NOT applicable to every single WP app install, and should be optional. And as Joel stated, they may even break the app in many cases.
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Jenny
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Here are some other popular and well-rated caching plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hyper-cache/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/zencache/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ - This one is maintained by Automattic, the parent company behind Wordpress.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ - this seems to be the highest rated -
AdminCloudways
(Admin, Cloudways)
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Thanks for your feedback. We will consider it. Any suggestions as alternatives?
Cloudways Team
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Joel James
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W3 Total Cache may cause issues with few WordPress plugins like EDD. So please provide an option to select whether to install or not, when installing WordPress.
One of my site is not working at all due to w3cache plugin. Even after completely removing it, issues are there -
AdminCloudways
(Admin, Cloudways)
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W3 Total Cache is integral in our Wordpress integration to Varnish, and Varnish in integral part of providing a fast and optimal WP experience.
Also, from our point of view, we need to deploy optimally configured applications to work with our stack and this may include deploying certain plugins (like W3 Total Cache) to better integrate a given application with the different components of our stack.
Of course, a customer can decide to completely override our predefined settings (i.e. uninstalling W3 Total Cache) but more often than not, this will lead to degraded performance/experience.
In fact we plan to come up in next quarter with a new tool to detect apps not optimally configured as per our standards, and provide a single button click fix for it.
In any case, even if we disagree, thanks for your feedback.
Cloudways Team
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Peter
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It would be nice, if you remove W3 Total Cache plugin after installation.
I hope I m not alone, who don't use this plugin and its annoying to delete it after installation.
I think installation of any third party plugin is choice of user, not hosting provider.