Cache - Web Caching Articles

Web caching is the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) in order to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived "lag". A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met.

Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin Released

AskApache Crazy Cache WordPress PluginA WordPress plugin that caches your entire blog for WP-Cache, I love this plugin and finally released it to the public!

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 / 3 comments

Hacking WP Super Cache for Speed

AskApache Crazy Cache - coming soonA plugin built to generate static files from php+mysql for Apache to serve the way its supposed to be.. My dream. Conclusion: Needs some improvement, pretty sweet though.

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Sunday, March 30, 2008 / comments

Hack WP-Cache for Maximum Speed

WP-Cache with Full AskApache HackIf you desire SPEED from your WordPress blog, the #1 speed improvement comes from using the WP-Cache Plugin. If you still desire SPEED after installing the Plugin, you can modify the WP-Cache Plugin code to make your blog even faster!

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 / 1 comment

Speed Tips: Add Cache-Control Headers

Cache-Control Headers OnUsing Cache-Control headers you can specify which types of proxies can cache certain content, and how long files should be cached.

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Monday, March 10, 2008 / 2 comments

Faster Form Submission and Processing with fsockopen

Speedy Forms using background-requestsPart II: Example illustrating how to speed up GET/POST form submissions. Uses fsockopen to initiate a server-side background request to process the submitted data, so that the result page of the form is displayed to the client lightningly quick.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 / 2 comments

Faster POST and GET Form Submissions

Snoopy Fsockopen HTTP Class for PHPJust a very brief look at speeding up form submission by delegating the processing and bandwidth to your server, not your client.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 / 1 comment

Firefox Adsense WordPress Plugin

ScreenShot of WordPress Plugin AskApache Firefox AdsenseIf your WordPress blog uses AdSense, and you love Firefox you will love this plugin. When a user downloads and installs Firefox through your referral, we’ll credit your account with up to $1.00 (more details).

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Thursday, January 17, 2008 / 11 comments

Come On and Sprite for your Website

CSS Sprite, candid shotLet me show you an example that works so well I am using it right now on my site. Every page in fact. If you are a young or up and coming web developer with skills to pay the bills, lets make the future Net fast, learn about optimization and refactoring while you still have the chance.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 / 1 comment

mod_rewrite Fix for Caching Updated Files

Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since requests. You only need Apache with mod_rewrite, and 1-10 minutes!

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Saturday, December 22, 2007 / comments

Prevent WP-Cache from Caching index

Disable caching on WordPress index pages when using WP-Cache with this neat mod to the famously speedy cache plugin.

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Friday, December 7, 2007 / 3 comments

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