I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, …
W3 Total Cache
They promise integration with CDN systems, which are available to me via IONOS hosting.
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/#installation
- https://www.boldgrid.com/support/w3-total-cache/ , the author/vendor site
- https://www.boldgrid.com/support/w3-total-cache/setup-guide-wizard/
- And a third party comment, https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/plugins/w3-total-cache/ from inmotion hosting
I finally wrote some scripts to delete old cache files, they are https://github.com/dfl1955/wordpresstools
See also Event Monitoring & GNUplot, which is meant to provide me with a graph/chart of the space used.
Bottom Line
This didn’t work for me as I wasn’t paying for enough space to hold the plugin’s cache, nor for alternative cache stores. I am now paying for the CDN service.
I changed the name of the post, and brought it up to date. I have in fact uninstalled w3-total-cache. I’ll not markit as deprecated as some may find the post useful despite it being posted in 2023. I have adopted the IONOS CDN but have not sought to integrate the cacheing solution with it.