How To Boost The Performance Of Your VPS Server With Caching?

VPS Hosting is considered to be one of the most versatile next-level web hosting services. It is fast, secure, scalable and reliable. VPS Hosting is available as both Linux VPS Hosting and Windows VPS Hosting. 

VPS Hosting plans sound similar to Shared Hosting as multiple websites are hosted on a single server. However, server virtualisation powered by a hypervisor ensures account isolation and dedicated resources for each website on VPS Servers. 

VPS Servers offer full root access, scalability and customizability.  VPS is a virtualised server; a group of virtual servers residing on a single physical server, which is why the name Virtual Server Hosting. 

The virtualisation, isolation and dedicated allocation of resources ensure that VPS plans offer an entire virtual server for one website, along with the complete and dedicated allocation of critical server resources. This ensures high performance and speed. 

However, you can further boost the speed of your VPS Server with caching. Want to know how? Read on!

1. Server Caching

Also known as the server-side caching method, server caching loads websites faster during high traffic conditions. It is simple to install, configure and deploy server-side caching since you get unrestricted access to the root of the server. Varnish, NGINX, Memcached with PHP, and Squid are some of the best-known server caching applications.

Varnish and NGINX are an HTTP accelerator or caching system that is used mostly in dynamic and high-level websites. Memcached with PHP is an OpenSource distributed memory object caching system that speeds up database servers. Squid is a forwarding web proxy that speeds up web servers by storing repeated requests. In case you do not have the expertise to successfully deploy caching, your hosting provider can do it for you with managed hosting.

2. Third-party Caching

Third-party caching is made possible via plugins. It is especially prevalent in WordPress hosting which supports a large number of plugins. They are easy to install and do their work efficiently with minimal configurations, usually tapping into the hosting server’s system. They offer a pretty straightforward way to boost the performance of a VPS server. Some third-party caching solutions are W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, and WP-FFPC.

W3 Total Cache is a popular caching plugin for WordPress that decreases bandwidth usage with a minification feature. WP Super Cache is a disk caching method that also uses minification but boosts website load times by loading plugin updates directly into the interface panel. WP-FFPC uses memory for caching rather than using the storage disk, which is an overall faster caching solution.

3. In-Browser Caching

Unlike the other caching options, In-browser Caching happens at the user’s end. It boosts page load speeds and reduces the loading times of heavy web pages. It works by setting up headers in your website’s most popular and commonly visited pages. The next step is to allow the users’ browser to cache them. Whenever a new request comes in for the cached pages, that request is served from the cache, rather than the hosting server. Whenever a new request comes in, the system adds it to the cache and serves the further requests from there.

Caching is just one way of boosting the performance of a VPS Server. But when done right, it provides a significant boost to a website’s speed by conserving system resources.