# Give Your Site a Boost With memcached

By Ben Ramsey

- **Date:** May 23, 2007
- **Event:** International PHP Conference, Spring Edition
- **Venue:** Forum am Schlosspark
- **City:** Ludwigsburg, Germany

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Today's high-traffic websites implement caching techniques that cut down data processing to increase speed of content delivery. Memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. This talk will cover memcached and the PECL memcache extension from setting up a memcached server to using it to provide a variety of caching solutions for data and sessions.