# Give Your Site A Boost With Memcache

By Ben Ramsey

- **Date:** July 24, 2008
- **Event:** O'Reilly Open Source Convention
- **Venue:** Oregon Convention Center
- **City:** Portland, OR, US

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Today’s high-traffic web sites must implement performance-boosting measures that cut down data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. This talk will cover memcached and the memcache extension for PHP from setting up a memcached server to using it to provide a variety of caching solutions, including the use of memcached as a session data store.

While all examples will be given in PHP, the caching principles illustrated using memcached should also apply to other programming languages.