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Hi guys,

I am thinking on starting to use Redis on my webhost server to boost the wordpress performance. However after reading about Redis i am not sure if Simple:Press forum will continue to work or not.

I am not a native english speaker, so if you could read the text below about Redis and tell me what you think, it would be greatly appricated.

Thanks in advance!

Thomas

What is Redis?

Redis is an open-source advanced key-value cache and store. It is usually referred as a data structure server and it is know for its outstanding performance as it works with in-memory dataset.

How does the caching work?

Every time a WordPress page is accessed a query is executed towards the WordPress database to fetch the content of the page. By implementing a Redis caching, the results of the query will be stored into the memory block managed by Redis.

Upon future requests of the same page the information will be retrieved from the Redis cache eliminating the need to execute the MySQL query. This can be very beneficial even if you have just a few visitors as on your website as retrieving the data directly from the memory via the Redis can reduce the page load time in half.

Still, this solution is most beneficial for WordPress websites with a large number of simultaneous requests as reducing the number of simultaneous queries to your website database greatly improves the performance, eliminates MySQL bottleneck and provides better utilization of the server resources so you can handle more traffic, faster and cheaper eliminating the need of a more powerful hardware.

Additionally, caching with Redis eliminates the need to manually flush the cache when new content is published. If a page is edited or a new content is posted on your website, the Redis cache for that content will be invalidated to avoid dirty cache and will be updated after the next page load.