Title: variable performance Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # variable performance * Resolved [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/) * (@nisiwi) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/) * I’ve noticed a LOT of variability on performance with WP-FFPC and as such had to revert back to Hyper Cache and I’ve seen a big improvement in consistency of page load times and a reduction on initial page loading lag. * Could be problems with APC, not sure, however HyperCache is performing a lot better for me. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ffpc/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ffpc/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [petermolnar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadeyrn/) * (@cadeyrn) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595050) * Hi Nic, * Initial page load: the plugin only utilize cache after the first load of the page. Could you be a littlebit more specific on the variability on the cases you tested? Logged in, visitor only, etc. * Also, if you have any idea what could be made better, I’d welcome it. * Cheers, Peter * [Pothi Kalimuthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pothi/) * (@pothi) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595071) * Nic, * WP-FFPC and HyperCache work in different scenarios. Even though, I haven’t used HyperCache, I noticed that it is a file-based caching system. So, it is expected to work in most hosting environment without any specific issues. On the other hand, WP-FFPC uses either APC or Memcached. I never used APC with WP-FFPC. However, with Memcached, it works for me on an Nginx server. APC is very efficient than any other caching layers, IMO. However, making it to work on a particular host is tricky. You can see many issues on other plugins that use APC too. A host is where to ask help in such a situation, rather than a plugin author who is mostly concerned about bugs, features, etc. * Thread Starter [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/) * (@nisiwi) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595112) * Yes Hyper Cache is a file based caching system Pothi, however WP-FFPC is based on Hyper Cache so I assumed that it would be creating static pages also (although I did not see any) as well as using the PHP opcode cache (the two are different and can be combined). * Peter, can you confirm is static page are generated / cached and where they are stored. * Plugin Author [petermolnar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadeyrn/) * (@cadeyrn) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595114) * Hi Nic, * It’s not based on Hyper Cache anymore. It was, using mostly concept until 0.6.1, version 1.0 is nearly a complete refactor, leaving most of the previous codebase behind ( even the readme.txt related text is changed that mentions Hyper Cache) * There are no classic files generated: the output of WordPress is saved as string in either APC user container or in memcached. For info on APC entries & stats, please read ( for example ) this arcticle: [http://www.electrictoolbox.com/apc-php-cache-information/](http://www.electrictoolbox.com/apc-php-cache-information/) * Plugin Author [petermolnar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadeyrn/) * (@cadeyrn) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595215) * Hi Nic, * Is there any update on this topic? If not, I’ll be closing it tomorrow. * Cheers, Peter * Thread Starter [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/) * (@nisiwi) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595216) * Hi Peter, * I may test WP-FFPC again (didn’t have / give it enough time initially), however I do have a working, stable and fast solution with; * apache + nginx (as proxy / cache) w3 total cache (opcode disabled) – handles CDN rewrites tribe cache (for opcode) * I’ve dramatically reduced server load now with static files served by nginx via proxy, CDN delivering other heavy static files and leaving apache and opcode to deal with the rest. * Do you think WP-FFPC could improve on that ? * Plugin Author [petermolnar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadeyrn/) * (@cadeyrn) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595217) * Hi Nic, * This setup would definately need testing but the cache plugin ( and I mean any kind of ) would only make a difference at a fairly high load. If you have numerous hits/second than yes, it should make difference but it could be just a slight one. * Thread Starter [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/) * (@nisiwi) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595218) * Thank you for responding Peter although I’m not sure I would agree as it would depend on how that load is generated – from real visitor traffic / activity or due to site / server that is not tuned to deliver performance (depending on available HW resources) – however I will give it another test when I have the chance. * Plugin Author [petermolnar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadeyrn/) * (@cadeyrn) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-performance/#post-3595244) * Half year old thread, possible sorted out by now. 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