Litespeed Cache Plugin

Hi @discovarmore

Lightspeed is software that your WordPress website runs on – similar to Apache or nginx. Your host has likely set it to be installed automatically due to that, and it’ll provide integration with their hosting configuration.

As such, since your hosting environment has Lightspeed caching enabled, that plugin would be better than some other dedicated caching plugins as you’d have double-caching if you used another plugin.

You also have Cloudflare in use on the site provided, which also does some caching. I expect Lightspeed caching + Cloudflare would suffice for most caching needs, but you could explore adding a different caching plugin if you ran into performance issues – I would verify with your host that it wouldn’t conflict with the Lightspeed cache however.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Dion Hulse.

Okay. Thank you very much for this information. I noticed that Litespeed has its own CDN and it’s free, which is QUIC.CLOUD. Please is it advisable to use CDN on a blog that has more than 35 posts in it?

Tho, I saw Litespeed installed on my WordPress the very first time I installed WordPress, but I uninstalled and then installed WP fast cache plugin.

Please also advise me. Switching to Litespeed, hope it won’t affect my page loading because I want to go back to what my Hosting provider recommended as one of their best plugins.

Thank you very much for this information. I noticed that Litespeed has its own CDN and it’s free, which is QUIC.CLOUD. Please is it advisable to use CDN on a blog that has more than 35 posts in it?

Unfortunately I don’t know anything about that CDN product, other than to say that the product you’ve mentioned is NOT provided by Lightspeed, and may be an integration your web host offers
For most people, a CDN offers very little advantage, unless you’re serving a LOT of media (images, audio, video, etc and by a lot, I mean thousands of items). It’s also often beneficial for high traffic websites (hundreds of thousands of page views a day).

I saw Litespeed installed on my WordPress the very first time I installed WordPress, but I uninstalled and then installed WP fast cache plugin

Any caching plugin will generally do a good job in my opinion, I don’t recommend any specific one over another.
If your web host has configured the caching correctly (I can’t verify this, but I assume they have), deactivating the Lightspeed cache plugin will have disabled that caching, and whatever caching plugin you’ve chosen to install should be doing the job now.

In general, using the caching options promoted by your webhost is preferably, as they have a vested interest in your website performing well. But if you’ve already setup the site using another caching plugin, just use that.

As long as you have some kind of caching plugin installed, and are comfortable using it, I would just stick with that. If you have issues later on, you can ask your webhost if they recommend their caching plugin and if it’d work better with your site.