Hi!
To be completely honest, FOCUS is very inefficient 🙂 It relies on the filesystem to cache data, with nothing stored in memory. Redis on the other hand is an in-memory cache (for the most part), and will be much faster. Unfortunately though, it usually requires more technical setup and a VPS or private server.
Using FOCUS can be better than no cache, depending on how speedy the database server is. It’s worth doing some testing (but not in any production environment) to see if it works well for your needs.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
I think FOCUS is a very good base to develop a feature about redis.
hope you have a plan to do that.
thank you.
@motherofdragons There’s no point, the purpose of FOCUS is to have object caching on low-end web hosts where memcached/Redis/etc in-memory storage backends aren’t available.
Besides that, there’re 2 Redis plugins available.
