If you’re talking about caching, any decent caching plugin will have the cache ready to go most of the time (WP Rocket certainly does). Sure, recrawling the entire takes a few minutes, but you seem to be alluding to something else?
What the heck is a “cold start”?
Setup a ‘real’ cron to call the wp-cron every 15 minutes.
This will allow your caching plugin if set up correctly to automatically regenerate expired caches reducing delays.
Often if I launch 50 or 100 servers for an upcoming event we block traffic and I run a link jumping script to keep the servers warm but it’s more urban legend than science perhaps.
With an empty cache some warm up my help but after a flush wp-rocket has it’s own bot that does that and takes the first loaded pages into cache.
Best way to get around cold starts is an uptime monitor. UptimeRobot has a free plan with 5 minute checks.
If you’re talking about caching, any decent caching plugin will have the cache ready to go most of the time (WP Rocket certainly does). Sure, recrawling the entire takes a few minutes, but you seem to be alluding to something else?
What the heck is a “cold start”?
Setup a ‘real’ cron to call the wp-cron every 15 minutes.
This will allow your caching plugin if set up correctly to automatically regenerate expired caches reducing delays.
Often if I launch 50 or 100 servers for an upcoming event we block traffic and I run a link jumping script to keep the servers warm but it’s more urban legend than science perhaps.
With an empty cache some warm up my help but after a flush wp-rocket has it’s own bot that does that and takes the first loaded pages into cache.
Best way to get around cold starts is an uptime monitor. UptimeRobot has a free plan with 5 minute checks.