Super Cache!

If the site seems maybe a bit faster, I bet it’s because of Super Cache! This plugin will store pages as HTML and serve them up instead of more intensive PHP pages with oodles of MySQL quries. It was a bit of a pain to get working. First I had to enable mod_rewrite, and then the readme told me I had to delete the configuration files of another, less extreme caching plugin that it uses to supplement itself. It then complained it couldn’t find the file. Oh well. Given write permissions to various folders and files, it was largely able to fix its own problems. You can tell if a page has been served to you by super cache by checking the source code of the page at the bottom for a comment saying as much. This means my server will probably be even LESS occupied. I’d like to run Seti@Home on the server, too, but I’ve tried it before and it loses some responsiveness and becomes horribly unstable. I suspect it’s probably overheating, which will hopefully be solved once and for all when we get our house wired with some Cat 6 and stick all but the alarm computer and the desktops in the basement. I imagine computers are quite fond of a nice 57 degrees. (Fahrenheit, I don’t want to melt them. :p)

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