XF 1.1 How does File Cache helps under shared hosting?

[rdn]

Dis-advantage I observe is:
While using File cache during upgrade, it cause a lot of timeouts.
Disabling the file cache will minimize timeouts.

 

[rdn]

Does file cache, minimize server load?
Optimize site loading time?
Can somebody explain?

 

[Mike]

Using file-based caching could in theory speed certain things up, but in general cases (particularly relating to a shared server where the configuration may not be ideal), it may end up being worse. I probably would never use a file-based cache system for XF. I'd only enable a cache system that was memory-based (such as Memcache or maybe APC, but I have some concerns with how APC expires entries).

 

[Paul B]

I used simple file caching when I was on a shared server but I didn't really notice any difference.

 

[MattW]

I'd only enable a cache system that was memory-based (such as Memcache or maybe APC, but I have some concerns with how APC expires entries).

Xcache has been working really well for me (much better than APC in my opinion)

 

[rdn]

Xcache has been working really well for me (much better than APC in my opinion)

For what I know, XCache is better in Apache and APC is more better on Nginx

 

[MattW]

For what I know, XCache is better in Apache and APC is more better on Nginx

That is what I found as well. I ran Nginx in APC on my dev server before I got rid of it.

 

[Mike Edge]

I used simple file caching when I was on a shared server but I didn't really notice any difference.

Same, though both myself and several customers have mentioned the difference when they use Memcache on our shared servers. Even more so on our servers we migrated from Litespeed to Nginx already.