Any recommendations for a caching strategy?

marcus_w

I have built a fairly heavy news portal on Waravel. The performance is solid, but during traffic spikes (like when a newsletter goes out), the database load gets a bit high from all the concurrent reads.

What are people using for caching in production? Redis? Memcached? Or just relying on Laravel is built-in file/database cache? I am looking to implement full-page caching if possible.

SarahDev

I am running Redis on my production server. Since Waravel is built on Laravel, you just need to change the CACHE_DRIVER in your .env to redis and install the predis/predis package or the PHP Redis extension. It makes a noticeable difference for database-heavy pages.

marcus_w

Is there a native full-page cache plugin currently available, or should I be looking at something like Varnish in front of the application?

Comunity-WV

We recommend using Cloudflare for full-page caching if your content is mostly static. For dynamic authenticated pages, Redis object caching is the way to go. We are also exploring adding a native static HTML cache generator in the v2 roadmap!