I for one am sick of hearing about W3TC being so good. I have never found it to work well, and I've tried. It requires specific Apache mods that you the plugin itself can't tell you if they are active or not. More times than not, it takes too much time to setup and often it ends up slowing down my sites, rather than speeding them up. Yeah, I'm probably not setting it up correctly, but here's the thing, it is hard to setup correctly. That's why they have an option to charge for getting it setup. They've been out for so long, and they haven't figured out a way to make it easier to get it setup properly.
So, when I took a slight chance and activated Falcon to see what it did. Simple. Performance was blazing. BLAZING. W3TC NEVER did that for any site, even after hours and hours of trying to configure it and trying to get some basic support. NEVER.
THANK YOU! for making Falcon available.
Finally something simple, easy and effective.
Complexity for complexity sake seems important and brainy, but I don't need to impress myself with tweaking for tweaking sake. Right now I think Falcon is the best thing out there.
And as far as complexity for complexity sake, go try BulletProof Security. And if you really want to sink yourself, try BulletProof Pro. What a joke. That's another one that you need to pay to have configured.