Obviously I could put this on an NFS share and link to it during my capistrano release, but it seems hacky. Too bad w3tc doesn’t store settings in the DB instead I guess.

Thanks

If you checked the forums, you would find that Frederick actually has some of the best free support I’ve ever seen and the countless testimonials state that. If Frederick didn’t reply to you it’s likely because he’s not at his desk or is working for one of his paying customers.

I’ve been watching this project for some time, and I know for a fact that there used to be hundreds of comments on his site because many people failed to read the note that says “ask questions on the forums.”  Obviously he’s removed support questions from there because that’s not sustainable for community.Why does he do this?  Clearly so we can all benefit from the support he freely gives in a place where the community gathers.  Entertainingly, you seem to think that Frederick is somehow doing us a disservice by encouraging people to post critical feedback and support issues in the most public place possible.  Rather then trying to “disguise” and “fact cover”, Frederick obviously is trying to build a top plugin.  If you’re dissatisfied with its current implementation then HELP HIM.  W3TC is in the top 10 highest rated plugins out of 10,000+ available, so obviously you’re on your own here. You’re definitely not going to get what you want by bad mouthing him, and your certainly not promoting an environment where the rest of us want to freely give away our code to help your blog.

I don’t think you realize, but Frederick is actually an executive at Mashable.com and doesn’t have lots of spare time.BTW, this site runs W3TC.

Current version of W3 Total Cache doesn’t support WP_Cache persistance and both can work together, but Total Cache 0.9 will support it and seems to be more featured than File Cache. But I’m not gonna use beta soft for caching in my production server