Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Problems storing settings on Disk
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Problems storing settings on Disk

 *  Resolved [Blair Williams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supercleanse/)
 * (@supercleanse)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problems-storing-settings-on-disk/)
 * Does anyone know if you can get W3TC to store settings in the database instead
   of on the filesystem?
 * I’m running W3TC on an EC2 cluster and I can’t change settings from the wordpress
   admin reliably anymore because it only updates on one instance.
 * Thanks!
 * Blair

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 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problems-storing-settings-on-disk/#post-1909680)
 * Use their quick response forum
 * [http://wordpress.org/tags/w3-total-cache?forum_id=10](http://wordpress.org/tags/w3-total-cache?forum_id=10)
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problems-storing-settings-on-disk/#post-1909881)
 * Not it’s not possible and would not be faster.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problems-storing-settings-on-disk/#post-1909881)
 * Status: resolved