diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.OutputCache/Models/CacheItem.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.OutputCache/Models/CacheItem.cs
index dd0c1d0b3..555a19d6c 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.OutputCache/Models/CacheItem.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.OutputCache/Models/CacheItem.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 namespace Orchard.OutputCache.Models {
     [Serializable]
     public class CacheItem {
+        // used for serialization compatibility
+        public static readonly string Version = "1";
+
         public DateTime CachedOnUtc { get; set; }
         public int Duration { get; set; }
         public int GraceTime { get; set; }
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Redis/OutputCache/RedisOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Redis/OutputCache/RedisOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
index daa6ae902..8b1edbc3d 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Redis/OutputCache/RedisOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Redis/OutputCache/RedisOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
-using Newtonsoft.Json;
 using Orchard.Environment.Configuration;
 using Orchard.Environment.Extensions;
 using Orchard.Logging;
@@ -10,11 +9,23 @@ using Orchard.OutputCache.Models;
 using Orchard.OutputCache.Services;
 using Orchard.Redis.Extensions;
 using StackExchange.Redis;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 
 namespace Orchard.Redis.OutputCache {
 
     [OrchardFeature("Orchard.Redis.OutputCache")]
     [OrchardSuppressDependency("Orchard.OutputCache.Services.DefaultCacheStorageProvider")]
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This implementation stores a <see cref="CacheItem"/> instance to a Redis server.
+    /// The item is serialized using a <see cref="BinaryFormatter"/> and GZipped. We rely
+    /// on compression at this level of the implementation as other output cache providers
+    /// might not want to rely on it, or transform the data to binary. The content is compressed
+    /// as HTML pages can be consequent, like several hundreds of KB, and the network be clogged.
+    /// To prevent versioning issues with serialized data, the Redis keys contain the 
+    /// <see cref="CacheItem.Version"/> property. 
+    /// </summary>
     public class RedisOutputCacheStorageProvider : IOutputCacheStorageProvider {
 
         private readonly ShellSettings _shellSettings;
@@ -43,12 +54,19 @@ namespace Orchard.Redis.OutputCache {
         }
 
         public void Set(string key, CacheItem cacheItem) {
+            if(cacheItem == null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("cacheItem");
+            }
+
             if (cacheItem.ValidFor <= 0) {
                 return;
             }
 
-            var value = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cacheItem);
-            Database.StringSet(GetLocalizedKey(key), value, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cacheItem.ValidFor));
+            using (var decompressedStream = Serialize(cacheItem)) {
+                using (var compressedStream = Compress(decompressedStream)) {
+                    Database.StringSet(GetLocalizedKey(key), compressedStream.ToArray(), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cacheItem.ValidFor));
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         public void Remove(string key) {
@@ -60,12 +78,21 @@ namespace Orchard.Redis.OutputCache {
         }
 
         public CacheItem GetCacheItem(string key) {
-            string value = Database.StringGet(GetLocalizedKey(key));
-            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) {
+            var value = Database.StringGet(GetLocalizedKey(key));
+
+            if (value.IsNullOrEmpty) {
                 return null;
             }
 
-            return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CacheItem>(value);
+            using (var compressedStream = new MemoryStream(value)) {
+                if(compressedStream.Length == 0) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+
+                using(var decompressedStream = Decompress(compressedStream)) {
+                    return Deserialize(decompressedStream);
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         public IEnumerable<CacheItem> GetCacheItems(int skip, int count) {
@@ -88,7 +115,7 @@ namespace Orchard.Redis.OutputCache {
         /// <param name="key">The key to localized.</param>
         /// <returns>A localized key based on the tenant name.</returns>
         private string GetLocalizedKey(string key) {
-            return _shellSettings.Name + ":OutputCache:" + key;
+            return _shellSettings.Name + ":OC:" + CacheItem.Version + ":" + key;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -111,5 +138,37 @@ namespace Orchard.Redis.OutputCache {
 
             return _keysCache;
         }
+
+        private static MemoryStream Serialize(CacheItem item) {
+            BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
+            var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
+            binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, item);
+            memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
+            return memoryStream;
+        }
+
+        private static CacheItem Deserialize(Stream stream) {
+            BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
+            var result = (CacheItem)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(stream);
+            return result;
+        }
+
+        private static MemoryStream Compress(Stream stream) {
+            var compressedStream = new MemoryStream();
+            using (var compressionStream = new GZipStream(compressedStream, CompressionMode.Compress)) {
+                stream.CopyTo(compressionStream);
+                return compressedStream;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static Stream Decompress(Stream stream) {
+            var decompressedStream = new MemoryStream();
+            using (GZipStream decompressionStream = new GZipStream(stream, CompressionMode.Decompress)) {
+                decompressionStream.CopyTo(decompressedStream);
+                decompressedStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
+                return decompressedStream;
+            }
+
+        }
     }
 }
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