Posted by dparkmit on May 25, 2010 at 4:36pm
Hi All,
Does anyone have experience using Authcache? If so, how much of a speed gain do you really get? Also, does it play well with Boost? I'm considering using Authcache on our site since we only have 1 class of registered user (besides admin) and have no display elements that are customized per user.
Cheers,
David
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People have reported running
People have reported running Boost and Authcache together without any problems.
The speed gain is dependent on how many users you have logged in and their browsing habits. If most of your authenticated users hit the same pages over and over, Authcache will offer an excellent improvement in page load time.
I think one reason people see a nice performance increase is also due to cache handler modules and/or opcode cache they install to use with Authcache. Using APC gives the biggest performance increase and should be a must for any website. Adding CacheRouter or Memcache API then helps takes the load off the database. This also allows Authcache to serve pages directly from the cache handler without establishing a database connection to MySQL.
Authcache definitely isn't a magic bullet, rather just another tool in the toolbox.
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