Comments on: If You’re Not Using memcached You’re Doing It Wrong http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/ The third attempt Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-bleeding By: Mike Peters http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-675 Mike Peters Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:16:58 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-675 We used to wait until a site became successful before implementing memcached. Now we just roll it out from day one. It's so easy to implement and as long as you have a clean database access layer, shouldn't take more than a few minutes to setup. If you're using PHP, I would also recommend throwing in a PHP compiler like eaccelerator or ach. Those help by eliminating the need to recompile the PHP instructions on each page load. As for memcached, if anyone is looking for a step-by-step tutorial (their website is a bit lacking in that department), here's Chris outlining how to get memcached up and running on a FreeBSD machine with PHP 4.x: <a href="http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-how-to-install-memcached-1240.html" rel="nofollow"> How to install Memcached</a> We used to wait until a site became successful before implementing memcached. Now we just roll it out from day one. It’s so easy to implement and as long as you have a clean database access layer, shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to setup.

If you’re using PHP, I would also recommend throwing in a PHP compiler like eaccelerator or ach. Those help by eliminating the need to recompile the PHP instructions on each page load.

As for memcached, if anyone is looking for a step-by-step tutorial (their website is a bit lacking in that department), here’s Chris outlining how to get memcached up and running on a FreeBSD machine with PHP 4.x:
How to install Memcached

]]> By: Des http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-600 Des Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:33:55 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-600 I saw the title of this post and kicked myself in the ass. I've always wanted to use memcached, but I have been stuck developing for other people that are usually on shared hosting accounts, so using something like this is out of the question. But now that I am finally working on my own site, I can. Glad I found your blog and read this so I dont have to add it later. As for language debate, if there was one language that was perfect for everything, there wouldn't be a need for anything else, just my 2 cents. I saw the title of this post and kicked myself in the ass. I’ve always wanted to use memcached, but I have been stuck developing for other people that are usually on shared hosting accounts, so using something like this is out of the question. But now that I am finally working on my own site, I can. Glad I found your blog and read this so I dont have to add it later.

As for language debate, if there was one language that was perfect for everything, there wouldn’t be a need for anything else, just my 2 cents.

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]]> By: david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-369 david Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:57:26 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-369 Zeeshan, You might notice that nowhere in my article do I mention PHP... So here you are on a high horse about how awful PHP is. Unfortunately, you neither understand what "this" (being memcached) is, nor do you have any clue as to what you're talking about. Perl is not the solution for high performance web applications, it never will be. The old PHP FUD is tired, most of it isn't even true anymore. Neither PHP nor Perl are perfect languages. Grow up. Zeeshan,

You might notice that nowhere in my article do I mention PHP…

So here you are on a high horse about how awful PHP is. Unfortunately, you neither understand what “this” (being memcached) is, nor do you have any clue as to what you’re talking about. Perl is not the solution for high performance web applications, it never will be. The old PHP FUD is tired, most of it isn’t even true anymore. Neither PHP nor Perl are perfect languages. Grow up.

]]> By: Zeeshan Muhammad http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-361 Zeeshan Muhammad Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:28:37 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-361 It's hard to accept PHP as a viable solution in such cases when you know that Zend pro-actively avoids incorporating such features into PHP in an effort to gain commercial customers. Either the PHP developer is forced to use a free third party solution such as this, or PHPA, or accept that PHP is nor longer suitable for the task and opt for another sustainable language which understands server resources and does not need to be run under a persistent parser in order to perform reasonably well. Hint #1: Perl. Hint #2: Perl is not CGI :) Hint #3: http://tnx.nl/php has some interesting facts. It’s hard to accept PHP as a viable solution in such cases when you know that Zend pro-actively avoids incorporating such features into PHP in an effort to gain commercial customers.

Either the PHP developer is forced to use a free third party solution such as this, or PHPA, or accept that PHP is nor longer suitable for the task and opt for another sustainable language which understands server resources and does not need to be run under a persistent parser in order to perform reasonably well.

Hint #1: Perl.
Hint #2: Perl is not CGI :)
Hint #3: http://tnx.nl/php has some interesting facts.

]]> By: david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-236 david Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:12:37 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-236 Yeah pretty much. Unless you could convince your host to install it. The downside is that there is absolutely no authentication with memcached, so you really wouldn't want to use it on a shared box. Yeah pretty much. Unless you could convince your host to install it. The downside is that there is absolutely no authentication with memcached, so you really wouldn’t want to use it on a shared box.

]]> By: Al Davies http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-233 Al Davies Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:02:53 +0000 http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/01/31/if-youre-not-using-memcached-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-233 quick question for you - this solutions is pretty sweet (just based on your site's performance) and looks easy to implement. Is this a fix that can only be used when you are hosting your own boxes? thanks! quick question for you - this solutions is pretty sweet (just based on your site’s performance) and looks easy to implement. Is this a fix that can only be used when you are hosting your own boxes?
thanks!

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