Mr Papa,

Just so that I am clear, in the window that say, “Never Cache the Following Pages,” I am to put ‘/forum/’ but you said that that addition is meaningless since I do not have /forum/ in my URL. My forum is my home page so I have asked it not to cache the home page either. I have unchecked, Varnish, and Object Caching. In the, “Never Cache the Following Pages,” I have added (instead of /forum/), the URL of my website since my forum is my site’s home page. This has rendered W3 basically useless as my forum is slower than ever. Is this what I am supposed to be including in the, “Never Cache the Following Pages” window? If not, can you please advise?

May I ask what makes this Simple:Press support forum so fast? What do you use to make it work?

Out of us here at SP I really need Steve on the wp-cache questions – or anyone else if they are familiar with it.

I can talk about this site. In terms of caching or any sort of speed enhancing options – we use nothing. We just shell out for good hosting which is still the best improvement to performance available.

Hopefully Mr Papa will be able to help me configure my W3.

I use a VPS and of the various sites that I run, the site that runs Simple:Press operates at such a dead pace that it’s deterring users from visiting my site. It’s been a real problem.

Who is your host provider and on what service?

we are currently running on a vps out of HostGator.
I have to say I have noticed your site tends to be slow loading,

Mr Papa, Yellow Swordfish,

The cause of my sites horrible slowness was the fact that it was sending 53MB of data over the network with every page load. The data has been removed and now my site only throws 0.05MB of data over the network.

My site now loads super fast and I no longer use any caching plugin! This is a situation I have been trying to achieve for a really long time. Hopefully, I can keep it this way.

Please check my site load speed and let me know what you think.

yup, much better…  not sure I want to know what that 53MB was!