Installing CacheFu—a caching add-on for Plone

Traditionally, the very first thing many people do to improve Plone's performance is install the CacheFu add-on product.

CacheFu has been around since the Plone 2.5.x days, and has been a welcome addition for folks trying to improve the performance of an increasingly complex and slower running software stack.

Although it is not the magic elixir that many hope it to be, it does provide a decent, measurable improvement for very little effort; so it is usually a good idea to explore.

It does this by creating and configuring several cache-related Zope objects such as RAMCacheManager with a reasonable set of defaults. CacheFu saves you from having to learn and fully understand the necessary Zope 2 concepts needed to be able to create and configure these objects by hand. It also saves you from having to know about complex web caching, in general. You should probably learn these things too, but you don't have to learn them now.

The addition of CacheFu...