Title: wordpress and mod_cache
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wordpress and mod_cache

 *  [mpapet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpapet/)
 * (@mpapet)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mod_cache/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m in a situation where I’m trying to relieve WP of doing most of the work serving
   pages and letting either nginx or mod_cache handle a WP site.
 * I am very comfortable running nginx and found examples of letting nginx do the
   caching. There is scant information on using apache’s mod_cache as the caching
   frontend.
 * Does anyone have experience/config tips for mod_cache?
 * Thanks in advance.
    mpapet

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 *  Thread Starter [mpapet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpapet/)
 * (@mpapet)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mod_cache/#post-1215933)
 * Erm, well let me be more specific. I want to use disk_cache, but, obviously for
   public paths. So, is it possible to cache just public content?
 * The other alternative is mem_cache. I see *lots* of memcached explanations, but
   I’m dealing with a very high-traffic site and I’d like to let apache do most 
   of the work. Is this possible?
 *  [Adam Harley (Kawauso)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kawauso/)
 * (@kawauso)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mod_cache/#post-1215947)
 * Have you considered using [WP Super Cache](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)?
   I’m afraid I don’t know anything about other caching solutions.
 *  Thread Starter [mpapet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpapet/)
 * (@mpapet)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mod_cache/#post-1216218)
 * Kawauso,
 * Super Cache is not enough. They are running it now and the server is still being
   hammered. Splitting the http server and the DB server will help, but it’s a reasonable
   assumption traffic will overwhelm that.
 * PHP is just not the right tool for the job at this scale.

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