Title: Some question regarding configuration
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Some question regarding configuration

 *  [AFQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afq/)
 * (@afq)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-question-regarding-configuration/)
 * I am mostly having issue with caching a custom post type which gets data from
   some other sites so it takes quite a lot of time to load and it is important 
   for these posts to be per-loaded and served from cache all the time. The information
   on the posts dont have to be updated to minutes or even hours. It’s fine even
   if it gets updated after 1 day.
 * So this is how i’ve configured the W3TC. I just want to validate my settings 
   and get suggestions from you guys.
 * 1. The page cache is set to memcache option with an IP provided by my hosting
   provider. On the Page Cache menu, I’ve disabled cache preload since I am using
   the Warm Cache plugin which runs a cron job after 24 hours and loads all pages
   defined the XML sitemap. This helps in W3TC cache preloading.
 * I’ve set the page cache purge policy to purge front page, post page, posts page
   and blog feed. “Maximum Lifetime of cache objects” on the page cache menu is 
   set to one day (86400 secs).
 * 2. I’ve disabled minify for now because it was breaking some pages on my website.
   I’ll talk to my theme provider to solve this issue. I’ve also disabled database
   cache because my hosting provider said so. If it really helps in improving the
   page speeds, I can ask them to help me enable it.
 * 3. Then comes with Object Cache page. This is really important for my custom 
   post type. Because the data retrieved from other sites is saved using Transients
   API (with expiry time of 1 day) if caching isnt not enabled. Presistant object
   caching is recommended with this. Object cache is also set to memcache. Default
   Lifetime of cache objects and garbage collection interval is set to 1 day (86400
   secs). I noticed written in the menu that bigger the lifetime, bigger the cache
   will be. I’ve like 2000 posts, so setting it to 1 day with 2000 posts is fine
   or it’ll stress my server?
 * That’s pretty much all that I want to know for now. Thanks in advance.
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