So far, there are two excellent performance enhancing caching solutions available for WordPress, WP-Cache and WP-SuperCache. Both do an awesome job of caching posts/pages to help keep your website from falling off the map in the middle of a Digg effect. Now, there is a new entrant in the caching arena called Batcache which was created by Andy Skelton.
This plugin is meant to be used in situations where file-based caching is either not practical, or is not desired. According to Andy, development testing showed a 40x reduction in the time it took to generate pages. Pages that were generated in 200ms ended up being served from the cache in only 5ms.
The basic premise of the plugin works similar to the other caching plugins that are available:
Batcache is aimed at preventing a flood of traffic from breaking your site. It does this by serving old pages to new users. This reduces […]
Original post by Jeff Chandler
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