I just installed WP Super Cache and I have to say I wish I had done this earlier!
Before I installed this I noticed that sometimes my blog would timeout and send back only a white page. I thought it was likely because I am on shared hosting and sometimes the PHP or MySQL just wasn’t ready to kick in fast enough (because it never it happens with HTML pages and it seemed like once I hit the first page everything would be “warmed up” and this blog would run normally).
I also been meaning to figure out how to get gzip content encoding on my pages, although I never really tried.
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