Newbie question, what is cache and how do you do it and why.

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Hi guys,

another newbie question, lol. Think it has something to do with saving but really have no clue. Could you please help me out and hopefully it will help someone else as well :confused:

Have a great day .
#cache #newbie #question
  • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
    Hi again,

    I see that 7 people have read my post, but no answer to my question ....

    Please, can someone explain cache for me and all others :confused:

    Thanks in advance, lol .
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  • Profile picture of the author jimh1626
    When you visit a website it is cached or put into a sort of memory on your hard drive I think so when you visit it again it will load faster. You can setup how much memory you allocate to memory cache through your control panel I think.
    Notice a lot of I thinks here. If I am wrong someone will surly correct me.

    Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul2008
    You don't 'do cache'... it happens automagically

    Cache is essentially the graphics, and files associated with a website. Cache is on your hard drive so that when you go to a webpage and your computer sees you've been there before, it first looks in the 'cache' to see if some of the files already are there and loads them from your hard drive, with the idea that it will load alot faster. This, in my opinion, helped greatly back in dialup days, but now that lots of folks have broadband connections... not so sure how much faster it really makes things.

    Cache also exists at your ISP's 'headend'... or the 'big servers' on your ISP. Think about this... say there is a wildly popular video that everyone is looking at in your area. Your ISP will cache the video within their network so it will serve up to the end user faster and not have the ISP's network choked up by pulling down the same video over and over from what ever other server is hosting it.

    Cache is also done on regional levels across nations (at least in the USA it is)... but I think some how this is getting to be a much longer answer than you were looking for.

    Google it. That should do it for you. But as an Internet Marketer, I'm not sure why you should even worry about cache.

    Paul Stanley
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