# Page Caching with clusters and redirect **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-caching-with-clusters-and-redirect/89488 "2007-03-20T20:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-caching-with-clusters-and-redirect/89488/1 "2007-03-20T20:31:33Z")
1. What’s the behavior of caches\_pages when an action returns a redirect? I’d like to only cache the page if the action renders, but _not_ cache the redirect 2. Any solution for using caching with a cluster of web servers? The sweepers won’t fire on the other web servers ---
**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-caching-with-clusters-and-redirect/89488/2 "2007-03-21T02:17:13Z")
On Mar 21, 3:30 am, “S. Robert J.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 1. What’s the behavior of caches\_pages when an action returns a > redirect? > I’d like to only cache the page if the action renders, but _not_ cache > the redirect It will serve the cached page straight away, no matter what, until the cache has expired. If you need to do redirects, use action-level caching with a before\_filter. > 1. Any solution for using caching with a cluster of web servers? The > sweepers won’t fire on the other web servers One solution is to use action caching everywhere and then use a central memcached server as your fragment store. Whenever you expire an action, it’ll get expired on that server.