Manual:Cache

MediaWiki is a very complex web-application, which means that it can take some time to render pages. To mitigate these costs, many MediaWiki administrators install one of many caching solutions.

• Manual:Performance tuning - How to configure your web server and MediaWiki installation to improve performance.
• Manual:Caching - Technical documentation: How object caching is used inside MediaWiki.

See also

• Manual:Configuration settings#Cache
• Performance guidelines
  • The in-process RFC for Master & slave datacenter strategy describes "Some changes would be needed to MediaWiki development standards" related to caching, POSTs, job queues...
• Cache strategy (old)
• Wikimedia servers
• PHP caching and optimization
• Manual:File cache - Optional simplistic scheme for caching the rendered HTML of article pages.
• Manual:Varnish caching
• Manual:CloudFlare
• How do I purge a cached page?
• How do I completely disable caching?