WP Rocket | Web Guyhttps://webguy.io/blogWeb and TechnologyTue, 03 Mar 2026 00:14:55 +0000en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1Why I Stopped Paying $600/Year for a WordPress Caching Pluginhttps://webguy.io/blog/why-i-stopped-paying-600-year-for-a-wordpress-caching-plugin/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:14:55 +0000https://webguy.io/blog/?p=1601857A caching plugin serves a static HTML file instead of running PHP and database queries on every page load. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. It’s one of the oldest, simplest performance tricks in web development, and somehow it became one of the most expensive products in the entire WordPress ecosystem. I used WP Rocket ... Why I Stopped Paying $600/Year for a WordPress Caching Plugin

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