# Hi, What is the difference between the “Redis Object Cache plugin” and the “Regular cache plugins” like WP Super cache, LiteSpeed cache, WP Rocket? How are they Different and Do I need Both of them?
Use Litespeed cache it has option to enable redis object cache (which is used to speed up queries between the database and server)
Those regular cache plugins are for “page” caching. Redis is for object caching so you can use both. I recommend you use OPcache too though most host usually have that by default.
Redis is a cache in RAM. It’s used to cache data from the database so it’s faster to retrieve the data from RAM than making a connection to the database and run a query. This generally speeds up things done in WP Admin and slow queries.
Regular caching plugins cache the generated page making it faster to serve requests to that page again without having WordPress have to generate the entire page again.
You can use a regular caching plugin and a Redis caching plugin together as they cache different areas of WordPress.
Use Litespeed cache it has option to enable redis object cache (which is used to speed up queries between the database and server)
Those regular cache plugins are for “page” caching. Redis is for object caching so you can use both. I recommend you use OPcache too though most host usually have that by default.
Redis is a cache in RAM. It’s used to cache data from the database so it’s faster to retrieve the data from RAM than making a connection to the database and run a query. This generally speeds up things done in WP Admin and slow queries.
Regular caching plugins cache the generated page making it faster to serve requests to that page again without having WordPress have to generate the entire page again.
You can use a regular caching plugin and a Redis caching plugin together as they cache different areas of WordPress.