Fastly vs. Cachify

The leading edge cloud platform available today empowers developers, fosters customer connections, and facilitates business growth. Our innovative solution is crafted to enhance both your existing technology and your teams' capabilities. By moving data and applications closer to users at the network's edge, our platform significantly boosts the performance of your websites and applications. Fastly's highly customizable CDN enables you to tailor content delivery right where it's needed most. Users will appreciate having immediate access to the information they seek. Our robust Points of Presence (POPs), equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs), are strategically positioned in well-connected areas across the globe. This setup allows for extended caching periods, minimizing the need to retrieve data from the original source. Instant Purge and batch purging through surrogate keys enable rapid caching and invalidation of dynamic content, ensuring that you can always deliver up-to-date news, inventory levels, and weather updates. With such capabilities, your platform is not only efficient but also adaptable to ever-evolving user demands.

Cachify improves the loading speed of your website by converting posts, pages, and custom post types into static files that can be cached. Users can choose to cache this data through the database, the web server's hard drive, or directly in the server's system cache using APC (Alternative PHP Cache). By fetching pages or posts from the cache during loading, the number of database queries and PHP requests can be greatly reduced, potentially approaching zero depending on the caching option chosen. As a WordPress blog adds more dynamic elements like widgets, templates, and plugins, it may experience a decline in performance. Higher visitor traffic leads to increased database queries, which puts more processing strain on the server for dynamic content. This extra load can ultimately result in slower page delivery times. Particularly tailored for small to medium-sized projects, Cachify acts as a practical and user-friendly caching plugin that temporarily stores page content in a static format to ensure peak performance. Its effectiveness makes it an essential tool for keeping a website running smoothly, even as demands increase. Moreover, Cachify empowers site owners by simplifying the caching process, allowing them to focus on content creation and engagement without worrying about performance issues.