Comments on: Speed up WordPress on IIS 7.0

By: DigitalStudio

DigitalStudio — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:19:48 +0000

Hi. I followed your post to setup WP super cache on one of our WP (3.1) sites on IIS 7.5. We noticed once the page views went over 15K pageviews per hour, the site become almost unresponsive. Have you experienced such issues? Caching works really good up to that point though… I’d like to hear your thoughts.

By: Hector

Hector — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:49:34 +0000

Hi I know this post is a bit old but I have found it very useful anyway. My only question is, I don’t think or see the rewrite rule attempts to send the gzip version if available? I know Super Cache is creating the HTML and the GZIP version for every cached file, but it always sends the uncompressed one. Any ideas how to tweak the rule to try the compressed version first?

I was using Total Cache on Linux but now we had to move to Windows and since this is the only tutorial I found that worked and I have zero experience in writing IIS rules, I had to switch to Super Cache. The only thing I miss is the minification which I preferred than using a separate WP Minify.

Anyway, any help with the Gzip rule would be greatly appreciated!

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:47:21 +0000

Hi Sahil, Since the time I wrote this article there are other caching plugins became available which are designed to work well with IIS. I would recommend to take a look at W3 Total Cache, which has been tested with IIS and also supports WinCache.

By: sahil

sahil — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:59:10 +0000

Hello ruslany,

I was going through this article ,
As i also want to implement the same but the issue is that I have already written some rules in web.config for permalink structure but how to go abt implement only super cache stuff

Kindly respond asap

By: Hayden

Hayden — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:04:14 +0000

As per Output caching issues can CacheUntilChange help?

CacheUntilChange detects a change to the underlying resource.

Read about it here:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/710/configure-iis-7-output-caching/

By: Hayden

Hayden — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:22:15 +0000

I’m just thinking we get around 50,000 page views per day and we use Quick Cache which is a lot faster than WP Super Cache. Of course, it caches to DISK.

IIS Output cache would cache to Memory. I’m thinking it might be performance improvement to enable both? Enabling output cache to cache for say 10 seconds?

Does output cache remove files based on least used/hits or does it remove files just based on last access? I guess if IIS Output cache at say 10 – 30 seconds can be filled with only the most used pages then it could make sense to enabled both on busy site.

Any thoughts, clarifications, suggestions on running both so that cache is delivered from memory and not disk?

By: Hayden

Hayden — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:53:43 +0000

Thanks read it and understand. I now use Quick Cache with Wincache enabled = awesomeness

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:40:02 +0000

Conceptually, the wp-super-cache is somewhat similar to IIS output cache. The explainations of how those compare to wincache is here.

By: Hayden

Hayden — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:36:11 +0000

Is this to be used WITH wincache? Or does wincache replace wp-super-cache?

thanks

By: Francesco Cosentino

Francesco Cosentino — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:37:38 +0000

A good post.
I’m using WordPress running under IIS7.5 with MS SQL Server 2008 x64 as database.
I prefer to flag the file notification change option, this setting prevents the missing confirmation message when posting new data.
I suggest you to prevent caching under the wp-admin directory! This could help
Let me know and visit our blog!
F.