Razvan Stanga

Imagine a high traffic website that needs post views as an algorithm to display posts on the homepage. 
This website also uses <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/vcaching/" rel="ugc">Varnish Caching</a>. So we need an AJAX based post views counter. 
Now imagine a minimum 5000 concurrent users browsing the website, so we can’t use the default “AJAX in Plugins” as live updates on the backend using update_post_meta will be very painful for the backend.
So what can we do ?
What if all these post views counts will be done in memory using Redis ? 
Then we run a cornjob using WP-CLI to sync the post views count in Redis to the WordPress database.
Redis Post Views was born.

Redis Post Views

Highly optimized post views counter using Redis

Blizhost

<h3>🚀 Blizhost CloudCache Purge: Speed, Security, and Performance for Your WordPress Site</h3>
Blizhost CloudCache Purge is the essential plugin for those seeking speed, enhanced security, and optimized SEO for WordPress sites. Exclusive to Blizhost customers, this plugin integrates with CloudCache, a powerful and optimized solution for high-traffic websites, designed to significantly improve performance and protect your site from threats.
<h4>🎯 Why Use Blizhost’s CloudCache?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Extreme Speed: CloudCache delivers your site’s content directly from the server’s RAM, enabling loading speeds up to 300x faster.</li>
<li>Enhanced Security: Robust protection against brute force attacks, exploitable vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access attempts to administrative pages.</li>
<li>Optimized SEO: Loading speed is a crucial factor for Google rankings and other search engines. With CloudCache, your site becomes significantly faster, improving its ranking in search results.</li>
<li>High Performance under Heavy Traffic: Perfect for high-traffic sites, CloudCache ensures your site remains stable and fast, even during traffic spikes.</li>
<li>Built for HTTP: Unlike solutions such as Squid, Apache, or Nginx, CloudCache is 100% focused on the HTTP protocol, maximizing performance for WordPress sites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 Top-notch Security and Performance</h4>
CloudCache offers advanced protection, with features similar to services like Sucuri and Cloudflare, ensuring your WordPress site is secure and running at peak performance:
<ul>
<li>Brute Force Attack Protection: Prevents malicious login attempts to the WordPress admin area by limiting the number of failed access attempts.</li>
<li>Vulnerability Exploit Defense: Automatically monitors and blocks attempts to exploit known vulnerabilities in WordPress and its plugins.</li>
<li>DDoS Mitigation: Protects your site from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, keeping it available even during malicious traffic surges.</li>
<li>Security Rules: Advanced filtering to block malicious traffic before it reaches your site.</li>
<li>Sensitive Page Protection: Additional security layer for critical areas, such as login and admin pages.</li>
</ul>
<h4>💡 Immediate Benefits of Blizhost CloudCache Purge</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automated and Intelligent Caching: Whenever you publish, edit, or delete a post, page, or comment, the cache is automatically updated, ensuring that changes are quickly and accurately reflected.</li>
<li>Full WordPress Compatibility: The plugin seamlessly integrates your WordPress with Blizhost’s CloudCache, optimizing both speed and security.</li>
<li>SEO Improvement: Site speed is a critical factor for SEO, and with CloudCache, you’ll experience fast and efficient loading, helping boost your rankings on Google.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔧 How Does Blizhost CloudCache Purge Work?</h4>
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Automatic and Intelligent Cache Clearing:
<ul>
<li>The cache is automatically updated when you make changes to content, such as posts, pages, or comments. Relevant pages like sitemaps are also refreshed, ensuring that changes are reflected.</li>
<li>When important settings like title, description, or modifications to the WordPress Customizer are made, the entire cache is cleared, ensuring that your site reflects all changes correctly.</li>
</ul>
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Manual Cache Control:
<ul>
<li>The cache can be manually cleared via simple buttons in the WordPress dashboard or toolbar, giving you full control over cache behavior.</li>
</ul>
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</ol>
<h4>🌟 What is CloudCache?</h4>
CloudCache is an exclusive technology from Blizhost, inspired by systems used by major companies like Wikipedia, The New York Times, Facebook, and Twitter. It delivers your site’s content directly from the server’s RAM, resulting in ultra-fast loading, ideal for high-traffic websites.
<h4>🧩 Full Compatibility with Plugins and Themes</h4>
The Blizhost CloudCache Purge is fully compatible with key tools in the WordPress ecosystem, including:
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce: For high-performance online stores.</li>
<li>Cloudflare: Integration with the CDN and security features.</li>
<li>All caching plugins: Including LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, and WP Super Cache.</li>
<li>AMP: Full support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).</li>
<li>Page Builders: Compatible with Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, and more.</li>
<li>Form Plugins: Such as Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, etc.</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin was developed exclusively for Blizhost customers. Using it on other hosting providers will not bring the same benefits, as CloudCache was created to operate within our optimized infrastructure, ensuring speed, security, and support for high traffic.

Blizhost CloudCache Purge – Speed, Security, and Optimization

Automatic Cache Clearing and CloudCache Integration to Boost Speed and Protect Your Site with Enhanced Security.

Redis Post Views vs Blizhost CloudCache Purge – Speed, Security, and Optimization