When it comes to web application performance, often times your database will be the largest bottleneck and can really slow you down. So how can you speed up performance when you have a site or application that is constantly hitting your database to either write new data or to fetch stored data? One of the easiest ways is to cache the data that is accessed the most. Today, I cam going to show you a brief example of how to do this with Memcached using PHP and th...
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Back a few years ago I decided that I wanted to set up my very own web server so that I could do your typical web stuff. Granted this was before the days of twitter, Facebook, and before everyone started releasing API's for their applications, so the web was a simpler place. Well back then I knew nothing of Linux let alone how to use a terminal to get anything done, and there was no definitive guide for installing a web server on a dedicated machine. So that's what I hope to solve. So today we w...
