Do I need to clear cache every now and then… how do I do so?

  • Resolved arzoo

    (@arzoo)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m testing out Litespeed cache. I was using w3 total cache before.

    My question is, do I need to clear the cache in litespeed on a regular basis to prevent the disk size & mysql disk usage from getting big?

    Also, how do you clear the caches. I saw the purge options but the warning on the ‘Empty Entire Cache’ option kinda makes me wary, ie. “this action should only be used if things are cached incorrectly”

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    In most situation , you don’t need to , well , unless you have an extreme small size of Disk.

    you can purge it from here as screenshot, https://i.imgur.com/PqoOpXN.jpg

    Best regards

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by qtwrk.
    Plugin Support LiteSpeed Lisa

    (@lclarke)

    Hi, Arzoo.

    The great thing about LSCache is that you can set a long TTL for most of your content, and the plugin will know when a page needs to be purged. For example, if you update a post, LSCache knows to purge that post from the cache along with the category and tag archives related to that post. You can configure this behavior under LiteSpeed Cache > Settings > Purge.

    So, it really isn’t necessary to purge the cache manually, unless you have some kind of special situation, or like qtwrk said, very limited disk space.

    As far as that purge warning, if you choose to purge the cache from that page, you would want to use the “Purge All” button, not the “Empty Entire Cache” button. That second button applies to all LSCache-enabled apps on your server, not just WordPress. So, if you have a blog, an ecommerce site, and a forum, and they are all using LSCache, that button will purge the cache for all of those sites.

    Let us know if you have any more questions!

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