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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by kortilla on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:46PM (#25889355)
> It's still going through the PHP server and all of the routing/plugin/DB code within WP. Much better to use Varnish (and its ilk) and avoid overloading the PHP service.

This is incorrect. WP supercache generates static html that takes precedence over falling back to the php engine. This is the way it worked nearly a decade ago too.

I wish people wouldn’t spend so much effort bad-mouthing technology they don’t even understand. I don’t even like Wordpress but reading this is super annoying.

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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by mudlark on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:09AM (#25890807)
Caching is hard. Drupal used to, may still use the dB for caches. So you get pool issues. You have to also throttle features, like site Search or other intensive scripts. So in the main the internal caching is a step up from none.
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