Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Caching method Opcode Or Disk ?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Caching method Opcode Or Disk ?

 *  Resolved [ezzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ezzal/)
 * (@ezzal)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-caching-method-opcode-or-disk/)
 * Hi,
    I’m using W3 TotalCache and having the site hosted in vps.net (node 6)
 * Recently I’ve installed the APC opcode module and enabled it for all caching 
   methods. (Page,Db,Objects,etc)
 * I see the response times are faster than before.. I had disk(enhanced) before.
 * Can someone suggest me a good setting to use ?
 * I noticed that someone said Disk is still good for caching pages..
 * Any ideas ?
 * Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [72strokes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/72strokes/)
 * (@72strokes)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-caching-method-opcode-or-disk/#post-1956842)
 * My understanding is that disk enhanced is preferred since it doesn’t require 
   php to serve the page. It just grabs the html file.
 * Try disk enhanced for page caching and apc for everything else.
 *  [Gilligan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/playgod/)
 * (@playgod)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-caching-method-opcode-or-disk/#post-1956936)
 * Also use disk for minify, you don’t want to be serving huge css/js files out 
   of memory.
 * And make sure to enable gzip in the browser cache section, it will substatially
   decrease the amount of bandwidth required to transfer the minified files to the
   browser.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-caching-method-opcode-or-disk/#post-1956993)
 * Good tips.

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