@tranny I just wrote and published a new KB Article that should help: Troubleshooting Comet Cache
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I guess my issue was Cloudflare stripping notes from HTML, then (I did have those blank lines at the bottom). But that changes nothing on the fact that the difference between running with just Nginx and no caching plugin, and Nginx with Comet Cache is non existent. I run a very busy website with a lot of use activity on a dedicated server. When run without any caching plugin, my server load is in the neighborhood of 12. Activating W3TC keeps it around 1. Fastest Cache keeps it around 8. But Comet Cache around 12 – the same as with no caching plugin at all.
@tranny Were you able to confirm the issue was in fact CloudFlare stripping the HTML notes?
If you check in wp-content/cache/comet-cache/cache/ do you see cache files building up?
If you temporarily put your CloudFlare account in Development Mod and then visit a page on your site that should be cached (while logged out), do you see the HTML Notes at the bottom indicating that Comet Cache is caching the site?
Comet Cache and W3TC use the same method for page caching (output buffering) so it seems rather odd that you’re getting such a difference in performance.
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Thanks for your responses man. I appreciate every developer who puts time and effort toward making plugins. This one simply did not work out for me. I spent too much time trying to make use of it, but could not. If a plugin takes so much time to get going, and it doesn’t even go after that, it’s just not worth the hassle anymore.
I’m saddened by W3 developer abandoning his plugin, which I used for many years, but obviously it’s time to go, especially since W3 still uses PHP rules that are no longer supported in PHP7. But with other caching plugins available, spending excessive amount of time trying to tinker one that just wouldn’t work doesn’t make sense. I got rid of it and moved on to a different one.
