By using the Speed up tool in WordPress Manager you can accelerate your website’s loading speed through a special web technology.
Depending on the PHP version you are currently using on your WordPress website, with this tool you can activate and use Memcached or Redis.
Memcached and Redis are caching tools used to speed up dynamic website loading by caching data and objects in RAM.
You can speed up your WordPress site using Hosting or WordPress hosting services. The technology used for speeding up is Memcahed or Redis and the plugin W3 Total Cache.
You first need to click Check to view whether there is an activated speeding up technology for your website. If there is no such one, click Speed up.
Upon successful activation you will get a confirmation message such as:
Speeding up Details
Activating Speed up
Activating the Speed up tool is an automated process during which a few actions are performed on the website and the hosting account.
- The latest version of W3 Total Cache is installed, activated and set up on the WordPress website.
- Memcached or Redis is then activated in the hosting account depending on the PHP version used on the website.
- Finally, the PHP module Memcache or Redis is activated in the hosting account depending on the required speed up tool.
W3 Total Cache
You need to additionally install a plugin so that your website can properly work with Memcached or Redis.
For this purpose W3 Total Cache is installed and configured automatically on your website.
Note: We do not recommend using more than one caching plugin for your website. If you are already using one, check if it supports Memcached or Redis and if it does, you will only need to enter the respective settings.
Automatic Setup of W3 Total Cache
Caching settings as well as host and port for accessing W3 Total Cache are automatically configured in this plugin.
The following types of caching are then enabled:
- Page Cache;
- Browser Cache.
In Browser Cache the following options are set: Set Last-Modified header, Set expires header, Set cache control header , Set entity tag (ETag) , Enable HTTP (gzip) compression.
You can view the port which is automatically set up in the plugin settings by accessing the Memcached Manager or respectively the Redis Manager. Please keep in mind that if Memcadhed/Redis is deactivated and then reactivated, the port will change. In such cases you need to manually modify the port in the plugin settings for each type of caching.
You can perform additional setup for the different types of caching in the plugin by going to the WordPress admin panel » Performance.
Memcached and Redis
If by the time of activation PHP 5.6 or an older version is used, speeding up will be performed with the Memcached technology.
If the PHP version is 7.0 or a later one the speeding up technology used will be Redis.
The PHP module memcache/redis is automatically activated so that it makes it possible for Memcached/Redis to connect to the website.
Disabling Speedup
In case you need to disable your website’s acceleration, deactivate W3 Total Cache in WordPress. Upon the next plugin activation your settings will be kept and speeding up will be reactivated.
Read more:
🔗 General Settings for W3 Total Cache (Part 1) | Blog
🔗 General Settings in W3 Total Cache (Part 2) | Blog
This article applies to: hosting services with cPanel and WordPress Manager by SuperHosting.
