On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:59:45 Cliff Black wrote:
> Mod_cache caches final html output - essentially making it a static page
> for X number of seconds. This is not a good idea if you have ever changing
> data displayed/different variable input. As Michael said, it seems the
> Drupal boost does a similar thing, but at application level (so it may be
> slower)

A caveat here - mod_cache is NOT effective with pages that have dynamically 
caching information or when cookies are used.

This is why I advised in my last post to use it for dynamically produced non 
cookie pages and 'on the fly' images that have static content (like product 
images stored as blob in a database).

The reason is that mod_cache stores 2 files per 'page' - a file with the 
rendered source code and a file with the header info - including any cookie 
stuff.

As said before if any application needs caching for PHP HTML-rendered code it 
is time to seriously look at code quality and / or server capacity.

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