Speed Up WordPress with W3 Total Cache
WordPress is a database driven, dynamic website that requires constant lookups into the database, and new PHP instances pulled up for every new page that’s pulled up. WordPress does a great job of optimizing that ( it’s even faster in WordPress 3.2 ), but nothing is going to compare to a static site that’s coded in straight HTML.
Fortunately, there are caching programs that store the results of the database calls into a “cache” that gets sent to browsers and makes your site load up nearly as fast as a static site.
I found this excellent Scribd tutorial by Antti Kokkonen on how to install and configure W3 Total cache, which is also the recommended caching and CDN solution of Kettlewell Enterprises, Inc.
