<b>The Redis that vanished</b>

<b>The Redis that vanished</b>

Word is a managed-WP platform quietly pulled dedicated object caching from its lower tiers, replacing per-account instances with a shared pool, and dressed it as a 'streamlined caching architecture'.

For a busy WooCommerce site this is a real hit. Shared object cache means eviction churn under load, cart sessions dropping, and admin pages crawling during traffic spikes. A source tells us the change shipped in a routine maintenance window with no plan-page update.

Unconfirmed how widely it rolled, but two agencies report the same regression on the same week.

Watch this: if your dynamic pages got sluggish after a 'maintenance update', check whether your object cache is still dedicated. Quiet downgrades hide in release notes nobody reads.