Creates massive Cache. Sends mails.

  • phalancs

    (@phalancs)


    2 months, 1 week ago

    Today, I received an email from my minification plugin: Autoptimize wanted to tell me that there is sth. wrong with its cache. The plugin created a 900MB of cache data just within a week.

    No plugin should be doing this. Also, I would never ever want to receive any any emails from my caching or minification plugin without my consent. There is sth. wrong there. Anyways, I don’t want a minification plugin like autoptimize just to still need to additionally install a proper caching plugin as well. Both should be integrated into one.

    Disappointed.

    • This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by phalancs.
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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Hi phalancs;
    The size of the cache entirely depends on the configuration; if you are aggregating CSS and/ or JS (as was the default years ago) and if additionally “also aggregate inline JS” and/ or “also aggregate inline CSS” are active, then indeed the cache can grow big. Disabling aggregating inline JS/ CSS will prevent that from happening.

    Re. consent; it’s a matter of balance off course, but as a too big cache could ultimately break things and as this is a technical mail from your own WordPress installation and not a commercial mail from a company (or from me personally, imagine that) so I think consent in the normal sense does not necessarily apply? 😉

    Re. page caching; I have been on the fence about that. I ultimately integrated one in AO Pro, but generally these days most hosts offer way better methods of page caching (either on their own permises with e.g. nginx doing page caching or integrating 3rd party page caching, typically cloudflare) and those hosts often either advice against or sometimes downright forbid the installation of a page caching plugins.

    hope this clarifies 🙂
    frank

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