One of the best rules of thumb I know is the 80/20 rule. I can’t think of a more practical rule in almost any situation. Combined with the law of diminishing returns, it pretty much sums up how the universe works. One case-study that hopes to illustrate both of these, if only a little, is a short experiment in optimization I carried out recently. I was reading so many posts about optimizing wordpress using nginx, varnish, W3-Total-Cache and php-fpm. The results on some of them were staggering in terms of improvements, and I was inspired to try to come up with a similar setup that will really push the boundary of how fast I can serve a wordpress site.
Spoiler – Conclusion
So I know there isn’t such a thing as too much cash, but does the same apply to cache?
