Comet Cache
Advanced Caching Inspired by Simplicity
Overview
Comet Cache adds the perfect blend of speed, simplicity, and reliability. It’s simple, effective and there’s NO learning curve. No technical mumbo-jumbo standing in your way. Just a few clicks and Comet Cache is ready-to-go. Anyone can do this in just 2 minutes. With Comet Cache, your pages can be generated in under a second! This gives you a lot more freedom to experiment with new themes, other plugins, and changes in configuration. And when you do, you won’t need to worry so much about the potential for performance overhead in WordPress.
back to menu ↑Benefits
- The pro version provides the following benefits
- A very powerful ability to cache logged-in users
- A new improved “clear cache” button in the admin bar with enable/disable features
- The ability to disable Dashboard notifications related to automatic clearing/purging on change detectionsand to clear Markdown-related cache files generated by the s2Clean theme for WordPress and to run custom PHP code whenever the cache is cleared and to Auto-Clear a List of Custom URLs.
- HTML Compressor to automatically combine and compresses CSS/JS/HTML codeand Auto-Cache Engine to pre-cache your site at 15-minute intervals.
- Cache Statistics and Charts to analyze statistics about the page cache, HTML Compressor cache, PHP OPCache, and server health.
- Clear Cache User Permissions to give other users permission to clear the cache by specifying a list of Roles and/or Capabilities.
- Cache Statistics to help you gain insight into the status of your site cache.
- Import/Export functionality for Comet Cache configuration fileswith a Dynamic Version Salt (customize the caching engine).
- Compatibility with ManageWP and InfiniteWP.Rockstar support for all Comet Cache features.
- Static CDN Filters to serve some and/or ALL static files on your site from a CDN of your choosing, including support for Multiple CDN Host Names, Domain Sharding, and WordPress Multisite Networks.
- Multisite Host Exclusion Patterns to exclude specific child blogs from being cached in a Multisite Network.
- Mobile Mode that supports creating multiple versions of the cache for sites with adaptive designs.
- Domain Sharding / Multiple CDN Hosts to work around concurrency limits and make it possible for browsers to download more resources simultaneously.
- Server Load Monitoring to avoid regenerating the cache while the server is very busy by specifying a maximum server load average.
Pricing
Price: Starting from $0/year
Pricing model: One-time payment
Single Site
$39 /Life Time- All Core Features
- All Additional Pro Features
- Single-Site License
- Lifetime Updates + 3 Years Support
3 Sites
$99 /Life Time- All Core Features
- All Additional Pro Features
- 3-Site License
- Lifetime Updates + 3 Years Support
Unlimited Sites
$139 /Life Time- All Core Features
- All Additional Pro Features
- Unlimited-Site License
- Lifetime Updates + 3 Years Support
Free Trial: Available
back to menu ↑Pro’s & Con’s
- Simple and well documented configuration
- An advanced cache plugin systems for theme and plugin developers
- Options to control automatic cache clearing behavior for Home and Posts page, Author page, category, tag and Custom terms archive, RSS/RDF/ATOM feeds and XML SiteMaps.
- URI exclusion patterns that supports wildcards
- HTTP referrer exclusion patterns with supporting wildcards
- The ability to set an automatic expiration time
- Client side caching that allows double-caching in the client-side browser
- Caching for 404 Error requests to reduce the impacts of those requests on the server
- The ability to cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings.
- Apache Optimizations to enable GZIP Compression.and WP-CLI Compatibility.
- Too many conflicts with other plugins
- Not compatible with Google AMP
Competitors Plugins
back to menu ↑Summary/Conclusion
If you care about the speed of your site, Comet Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed. Comet Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored (cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.
Main Features
- Easy 2 minute setup with great documentation
- Post/page/category/tag caching
- Automatic and intelligent cache clearing
- Client side browser caching
- RSS, RDF and Atom feed caching
- 404(not found) Request caching
- Automatic cache expiration time
- Developer friendly code base
- GET request caching and exclusion
- GZIP compression and WP-CLI compatibility
- Advanced Cache plugin system and debugging mode
- URI Cache Exclusion, user-agent exclusion and HTTP Referrer patterns
Bundled Programs
- Cache plugin – template