Outside of using a CDN, just simply using static files gives you caching for free at the file system level. Linux automatically keeps files in RAM when they’re used.
Hmm? Generating static pages avoids database calls to construct pages. You do it once when you publish/edit a post. Then every reader never makes a database call again.
Just to help with future understanding of how threads go off the rails: eatonphil added a comment about using static files instead of dynamic, then your reply was “and caching”, meaning “in addition to static files, also use caching”. At this point in the conversation, we’re talking about only static files with caching, so it doesn’t really follow that you’re bringing up “database connections” again, since that’s already been excluded in this thread.
