James

How you leverage browser caching will depend on your server… Nginx… Apache… Etc… You can try cache plugins but before you install read their support threads… If it all looks like gloom and doom it is because newbies are learning the hard way that caching is not the easiest task.

In my time I have been lucky to salvage most of my data through battles with caching plugins, but I have wasted a hell of a lot of time in the battle. It is best to try doing all you can without plugins using server configurations or slight modifications to .htaccess when using Apache.

A tip from an exnube… Use the following tutorial to get free hosting on Amazon Web Service and an Nginx front-end server set up… Soon the tutorial will have browser caching and gzip configurations added, but it is super easy to do later.

I PROMISE… If you don’t know what you are doing, don’t play around clicking and saving your caching plugin. You will completely break your site and without a lot of mySQL and wp structure knowledge, you could easily lose everything.

The tutorial for the NGINX server is here>>>
Nginx setup on Amazon Web Service Optimized for WordPress using 1 year free Tier EC2 Micro Instance with 1 year free RDS database instance

You will first want to read this tutorial that goes over setting up an apache2 server without nginx… It has the primary setup for your AWS account much more documented>>>Apache2 setup on Amazon Web Service Optimized for WordPress using 1 year free Tier EC2 Micro Instance with 1 year free RDS database instance

Some will say it is too much for a newbie… In that case… So is caching…

There seem to have been 50 files transfered but the cron has not run again since? It has been 24 hours.
Ty