Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] memcached vs. opcache
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] memcached vs. opcache

 *  Resolved [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-memcached-vs-opcache/)
 * I have w3 total cache running on 7 wordpress installations on one domain like
   this: x.com, x.com/1, x.com/2, etc.
    it’s all on one dedicated server, so I’m
   trying to figure out if I should use memcached or one of the opcache options?
   Is there any benefit for me to use one vs. another? I am going to be using a 
   CDN for the sites as well. Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Anthony Somerset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonysomerset/)
 * (@anthonysomerset)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-memcached-vs-opcache/#post-2750273)
 * you’d get more benefits by first moving to wp-multisite for the installs, the
   the opcode cache would be more efficient
 *  [haddow777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haddow777/)
 * (@haddow777)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-memcached-vs-opcache/#post-2750389)
 * It depends on what you are putting in the cache. Anthony is probably correct 
   when it comes to object and DB caching. As for APC vs Memcache, I have found 
   that most people are on the side of APC. It circumvents much of the PHP functionality
   and manages things itself, which is probably better.
 * As for Page and Minify caching, your best bet from my understanding is disk enhanced
   and disk caching.
 * It seems counter-intuitive, but it is supposed to make it so your webserver doesn’t
   have to load PHP, but can just server the files directly which is supposed to
   be much faster.
 * My opinion at least.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-memcached-vs-opcache/#post-2750405)
 * Using multisite in subdomain mode means that you will get better scale from PHP
   using APC for a smaller code base and then using APC as the backend cache for
   object caching and database caching for a single single codebase. Then using 
   disk enhanced for page cache and disk mode for minify is probably your best bet.
 *  Thread Starter [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-memcached-vs-opcache/#post-2750406)
 * I probably should have a long time ago, but I’ve had them running this way for
   years. There’s over 100,000 posts between the different sites, and I have applications
   and some other things accessing their databases to pull info. It was too complicated
   for me to even think about changing it

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