Cache

[xmanhattan]

Which cache might be best, none, standard or static?

A client wants to place 1.5 hour mp3 speeches on their site. The rest of the site contains a regular amount of text.
I believe that they may place a few of these but it is not sure yet.

Will setting the cache on Elxis help?

Secondly, does setting the cache help reduce bandwidth, especially on the mp3?

[ks-net]

A client wants to place 1.5 hour mp3 speeches on their site. The rest of the site contains a regular amount of text.

no difference at all...

in a few words

cache is only for caching-store content  to html  pages .. to avoid in every request to startphp>>search DB>>procces sesults>>make html page.....

we store the last step(html page) to have available for an amount of time for the end user

this way we save time and server resources

Secondly, does setting the cache help reduce bandwidth, especially on the mp3?

no ... gzip for this

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static vs basic cache .. see
http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Static_cache


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what you may want is gzip and mime/types to be compressed ... googleit
iam not sure if  mp3(already compressed) can have any effect with gzip

edit:
the best way to handle mp3 speeches .. is a streaming server .. shoutcast etc..
either at your sever or a paid service elsewhere