Caching
Making ShopClass pages fast with caches.
How we made ShopClass 7.0 faster than 6.x, and what went wrong on the way
On a real site with 245,000 listings, ShopClass 7.0 serves 45% more pages a second than 6.4. How we found the slow parts, and the folder that surprised us.
Cache a classifieds site on Cloudflare and purge on change
Cloudflare caches your images but not your pages. Our free plugin caches ShopClass pages safely, skips logged-in visitors and purges a listing when it changes.
Speed up a PHP classifieds site with nginx FastCGI cache
In our tests a ShopClass home page went from 541 to 7,584 requests a second with nginx's FastCGI cache. Here is the setup, and the free plugin that purges pages.