Is there any caching add-on and speed tune-up tutorial available for 2021?

[ritesh]

I mentioned in my last thread that I'm interested in starting a Xenforo community. Speed is an important factor in 2021.

Is there any caching add-on and tutorial available for 2021? I see [bd] Cache is there but it's unmaintained.

Any other solution?

 

[Kruzya]

XenForo already has some caches "out-of-box". Also you can set up additionals.

Cache support | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

 

[ritesh]

XenForo already has some caches "out-of-box". Also you can set up additionals.

Cache support | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

So, the out-of-box settings are enough? I mean don't we need an add-on just like we need a plugin for WordPress?

 

[duderuud]

Use redis and install this add-on: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redis-cache-by-xon.5562/

 

[Faust]

XenForo already has some caches "out-of-box". Also you can set up additionals.

Cache support | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

Is xenforo supporting http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_cache.html ?

 

[Kruzya]

Can't say. I use nginx for 6 years (summary). I don't used Apache.

 

[Super8731]

Can I install Xcache on shared hosting?

 

[duderuud]

Probably not. Ask your host if they can enable that.

 

[Kirby]

Probably not. Ask your host if they can enable that.

Won't make much sense, XCache is not available for PHP 7.0+ (even the official project homepage is no longer available ...) and XenForo 2.2 does require at least PHP 7.0

Zend Opcache is included in vanilla PHP releases and should be used if possible.

 

[MySiteGuy]

The file based cache is almost as fast as memcached and Redis, so long the site is busy enough for the file contents stay in Linux's disk caching. Setup is in the Xenforo docs and worth doing.

 

[Kirby]

Any other solution?

• Properly configure/optimize your server (OpCache, MariaDB, etc.)
• Use XFES
• Configure XF to use a cache (Memcache, Redis, etc.)
• Enable Guest Cache
• Carefully analyze your Add-ons
• Try to limit usage of 3rd party resources

This should give you decent performance (if the server hardware isn't a bottleneck by itself).