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What is Cache or Caching?

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What is Cache or Caching?

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Caching means to save data for later re-use. This web site uses caching to ease the load on the web server. There are two types of caching involved for visitors of this web site. One is server caching, the other is client, local with the visitor, caching. When our web server creates web pages it requires resources, processing time and memory, on our server. This can be expensive when many requests appear in a short time period. If too many people are using this web site at the same time it may result in overloading on our server(s) and as a result this web site may appear to respond slower or not respond at all. To prevent this we take advantage of the two types of caching. With server caching we store on our server many of the most visited web pages and re-use the stored version when a new request for the same page is made. This is much quicker for our server than re-generating the page for each request. Because of this we can serve web pages to more people at the same time. With clie

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Browsers can automatically store/save (cache) pages displayed on your monitor to your hard drive. Caching (automatically saving pages to your hard drive) can allow others to see your personal information if they have access to your machine. When you are operating in the SSL mode, some browsers allow you to set the cache to be cleared (deleted) upon exiting the browser. If possible, you should set the cache to be cleared upon exiting the browser when using myPay.

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