Doyle Lewis

This plugin modifies your .htaccess file to provide protection from brute force attack bots.

Easy Bruteforce Protect

This plugin modifies your .htaccess file to provide protection from brute force attack bots.

Stefano Lissa

Hyper Cache is a cache plugin specifically written to get the maximum speed for your WordPress blog.
It can be used in low resources hosting as well on high end servers.
Hyper Cache is purely PHP and works on every blog: no complex configurations are needed and when you deactivate it no stale settings are left around.
Short list of features:
<ul>
<li>HTTPS ready</li>
<li>Able to serve expired pages to bots to increase the perceived blog speed by bots</li>
<li>Manages compression even on the fly for non cached pages</li>
<li>Lots of configurable bypasses: matching cookies, matching urls, user agents, …</li>
<li>Comments aware: is able to serve cached pages even to visitors who commented the blog (perfect for blog with great readers paritipation)</li>
<li>Cache folder can be moved outside your blog space to exclude it from backups</li>
<li>Controls over cache cleaning on blog events (post edited, comments, …)</li>
<li>Autoclean to controls the cache used disk space</li>
<li>CDN support</li>
<li>Other special options</li>
<li>Response header signature to check the working status</li>
<li>bbPress specific integration</li>
</ul>
More can be read on the <a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/hyper-cache" rel="nofollow ugc">Hyper Cache official page</a>.
You can further optimize the blog installing <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/" rel="ugc">Autoptimize</a> which cleans up the HTML, minifies and concatenates CSS and JavaScript.
Other plugins by Stefano Lissa:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Newsletter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/header-footer" rel="nofollow ugc">Header and Footer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/include-me" rel="nofollow ugc">Include Me</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.satollo.net/plugins/thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Thumbnails</a></li>
</ul>

Hyper Cache

Extremely easy to set up. KeyCdn support works and now I hope Stefano will come up with Preloaded Pages one day. 
I had bought Rocket Cache, Comet Cache Pro (f.. up my Multisite twice, they refuse to refund). 

 

Best Caching Plugin IHMO

Super fast, not overly complicated but with enough settings to customize for any set up. Most importantly: works like a charm on VPS!

THE caching plugin

Really well coded plugin, improved pagespeed for google from 86 to 93 compared to lightspeed cache. Simple and reliable.

Simply faster

Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.

Easy Bruteforce Protect vs Hyper Cache