Title: trasients & speed
Last modified: April 13, 2024

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# trasients & speed

 *  Resolved [futureyoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureyoon/)
 * (@futureyoon)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trasients-speed/)
 * Hi
 * I would like to check with you on object cache (redis) settings.
 * I was wondering about ‘Store transients in database’, will this affect any performance
   as in with it, the performance would be better or might be lower?
 * Your insights on this particular setting would be much appreciated.
 * Thank you

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trasients-speed/#post-17687536)
 * Hello [@futureyoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureyoon/)
 * Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help!
 * Transients are temporary data pieces stored in the database for short periods,
   usually used by plugins or WordPress itself to cache specific values.
 * If you use an external cache system (such as Redis or Memcached) alongside W3
   Total Cache, the standard would be to store transients in that external cache
   alongside other object cache data. With this setting disabled, when you purge
   the object cache the cached transients in the external cache are also purged,
   even though they might still be valid. Enabling this setting prevents that issue
   by forcing all transients to be stored in the database so that they maintain 
   their intended lifespan.
 * This should make things much faster.
 * Thanks!

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 * [transient](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/transient/)

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 * Last reply from: [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trasients-speed/#post-17687536)
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