Title: Disabling Caching Completely
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Disabling Caching Completely

 *  Resolved [Andrew Rhyand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewrhyand/)
 * (@andrewrhyand)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-caching-completely/)
 * Hey Don,
 * While I love the idea of 60 min caching, I’m running into db performance issues.
 * The issue is I have tens of thousands of products, and even with the automatic
   hour delete feature, it’s creating a ton of db tables which is really slowing
   my site down (almost unusable).
 * When is a cached file created? On visits by both bots and humans?
 * And can it be turned off?
 * Thanks,
 * Andrew
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 *  [Don Fischer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prophecy2040/)
 * (@prophecy2040)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-caching-completely/#post-6727033)
 * Andrew,
    The problem with disabling caching is that your requests would always
   call the API – on EVERY page load. If that were to happen and you had a lot of
   visitors, you would be throttled or temporarily blocked by Amazon for making 
   too many request per hour or per second.
 * You CAN disable the ‘cache-ahead’ process which may help. This feature reads 
   all of the ASINs on a page (even a list page) and groups them together and does
   grouped calls to Amazon and caches the groups (which them makes it easier for
   the plugin to call the cached file because it looks for the ASIN in any previously
   grouped cache file). This feature is available in version 3.6.3 up – so if you
   do not have that version installed, update first and see if that helps you out
   more with the cache issues.
 * The cache-ahead option is located in the options under the advanced tab.
 * Let me know if you have any issues.
    Warm regards, Don
 *  Thread Starter [Andrew Rhyand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewrhyand/)
 * (@andrewrhyand)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-caching-completely/#post-6727187)
 * Sorry Don, I should be more clear.
 * I absolutely agree that caching is a must. My issue is with the large number 
   of products on my site, caching using the db is creating a performance bottleneck
   well before I’m being throttled by Amazon.
 * By “performance bottleneck” I mean page load times of up to 15sec.
 * Having an option to disable the plugins native db caching option frees us up 
   to use our own caching solution, static html files via cdn as an example. Which
   scales a lot better than the db does.
 * Hope that makes sense.
 * Thanks, Andrew

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