Exclude Random Redirect from caching?

Question

• I have just deployed the W3 Total Cache plugin on my dedicated server (moillusions.com), but am not sure if it works already (server load still high).

• I have a very important random link generator: moillusions.com/?random yet am not sure how to exclude this from caching? (so it's always a different link when clicked)

Answer 1

Use jQuery or Javascript to cycle through and randomly pick one of your links, this way you can bypass the caching?

var messages = ["Good!", "Great!", "Awesome!", "Super!", "Nice!"];
function getMessage() {
   return messages[Math.floor(Math.random() * messages.length)];
}

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3419928/how-can-i-return-a-random-value-from-an-array

Answer 2

1. What this plugin is supposed to do about server load, if anything?

2. This depends on caching setup you use, good caching plugins try to intelligently skip obviously dynamic pages with query arguments in URL.