What are your LiteSpeed Cache plugin settings using Bricks + OpenLiteSpeed

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Greetings All. I am looking for readers to share your LSCWP (LiteSpeed) successful plugin settings with me, combined with what settings you use in the Bricks Performance tab.

Here’s my back story:
I have used LSCWP (LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress) for a few years on different sites. I can set it okay up to a point in Kadence but I have to keep everything simple with their theme & blocks. I can’t even add in social sharing because it hits the DOMs so high. Also, these past 12 months, Kadence has had too many times where their updates impact performance and I have to revisit caching settings again. For the past few months, my PSI performance metrics have been mixed in the green & yellow (to put it simply). I’m accustomed to mostly staying in all green so I can focus on posting. This back story is why I started a move over to Bricks Builder.

Here’s my “stack”:

I have an unmanaged VPS with:

  • AlmaLinux 10.x
  • DirectAdmin web control panel
  • OpenLiteSpeed
  • QUIC.cloud & its CDN
  • PHP v8.3
  • Bricks Builder (using the Bricks Child theme).

I also changed my web host (to SpeedyPage) for my unmanaged VPS (4 cores CPU, 8GB DDR5 memory, Gen4 NVMe drives, 12 TB Bandwidth @ 10 Gbps). I also had it tested for VPS Benchmarks and it was among the highest in over 90 percentile in all categories.

My WordPress plugins are:

  • 301 Redirects Pro
  • Database Cleaner Pro
  • Go Live Update URLs (& Pro)
  • Independent Analytics Pro (for stats)
  • LiteSpeed Cache (aka LSCWP)
  • Squirrly SEO (Newton) & Squirrly SEO (Advanced Pack)
  • WP Force SSL Pro
  • WPvivid Backup Plugin & WPvivid Plugins Pro

My Site Focus:
So, with that said, I’ve worked on eliminating infrastructure concerns for performance. I have it as a very simple design with nothing fancy at this point & no added fonts, for example. The fanciest things on the site are the social sharing bar & the native comment form (LoL).

My Request for Guidance:
There are tons of possible combinations of settings on the LiteSpeed plugin mixed with the Bricks performance tab settings. And therein, is my difficulty. I just can’t seem to get the right combination. I’m open to importing in your LSCWP settings file to test with (i.e., if that’s not a security issue; idk). I know to change it’s IP (if it’s there) and to look for any custom exclusions, etc. to remove). I’ve done this with my other sites when I get a test site working well. Anyway, any ideas or URLs (to read) of settings to try is greatly appreciated. Also, if there are any OLS settings to change (I just installed OLS via CLI script with no changes). Thanks.

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Presets >> Essentials
I disable “cache for logged in users,” since I am the only one that logs in.

I use Cloudflare reverse proxy too.

This works fine. All other LiteSpeed settings do little to nothing and I don’t mess with them.

I use Redis Object cache in LiteSpeed, but for my site, it makes little difference. It would help more for a WooCommerce site or maybe a very high traffic site.

I do have some sites using quic.cloud and it’s image optimization and that obviously helps if you don’t want to convert all of you images to webp and optimize them. There are plugins that will do it, so the quic.cloud images optimization is not needed in that case unless you are concerend that someone might visit your site with a browser that doesn’t support webp images. But the support for webp is high enough I don’t worry about it.

I use KnownHost semi-dedicated hosting for all of my sites. (Cloudlinux, Litespeed web server)

If you want real speed, use WPX.net hosting and it runs just as fast without a file cache. They use Lightspeed web server so you can use Litespeed cache with them too. They also have their own CDN (I don’t use it.).

I have been meaning to try hosting.com managed wordpress hosting because they have no limits on resources like io, iops or database access and I suspect it is fast if not faster than WPX.net. They use Cloudlinux an Litespeed web server too.

A VPN server is not something I want to mess with, been there, done that.