Title: Best plugin for using external cache
Last modified: February 16, 2019

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# Best plugin for using external cache

 *  [wkhatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wkhatch/)
 * (@wkhatch)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-for-using-external-cache/)
 * This is by far the best cache plugin when you’re using an external service, like
   elasticache in AWS. It is literally the only caching plugin that allows easy 
   configuration for specifying the memcached/redis server and port. None of the
   other plugins even come close to this.

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 * [W3 Total Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)
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