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blazin · 03-23-2013, 04:10 PM

How much bandwidth your site is pushing isn't that relevant....

If your site is doing lots of CPU/DB intensive processing on each request, and those requests don't change a lot from visitor to visitor... then yes memcached can help.

And for those that mention APC as an alternative... it's not.. well not really... APC primary purpose is an Opcode Cache... in simple terms, it makes PHP run faster by doing away with the need to do a full compile of your code on every request. Some programmers will use it as general purpose cache also.

03-23-2013, 04:10 PM
blazin Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,781	How much bandwidth your site is pushing isn't that relevant.... If your site is doing lots of CPU/DB intensive processing on each request, and those requests don't change a lot from visitor to visitor... then yes memcached can help. And for those that mention APC as an alternative... it's not.. well not really... APC primary purpose is an Opcode Cache... in simple terms, it makes PHP run faster by doing away with the need to do a full compile of your code on every request. Some programmers will use it as general purpose cache also. __________________ I don't endorse a god damn thing......