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Using memcached With Your vBulletin Forum To Reduce Server Load (Debian Etch) In this article I will explain how you can reduce server load by using memcached together with your vBulletin forum software (I'm assuming you are running vBulletin on Apache2 with mod_php5). memcached is a daemon that can store objects in the system's memory (e.g. results of database queries) which can speed up your web site tremendously. You can use memcached over a network (i.e., install your web application on one server and memcached on another server), but usually you install both on one server to avoid the networking overhead.
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The benefit of running memcache on the same machine as the Apache/MySQL used by vBulletin is debatable. Linux and MySQL already do a pretty good job of caching things; by using memcache you're just taking memory away from them.
Running memcache on another box (preferably one with a low latency to the web server) makes sense though.
On a side note, there's a useful vbulletin-specific caching system at http://linuxbox.co.uk/vbulletin_caching_with_lbcache.php
Hi to all. I would like to know what kind of forum is this? phpbb? Guci