Dirty Butter Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I see there's a place on the Advanced tab of Store Settings for Memcache Server List. Could someone give a newbie explanation of the benefits, if any, of using this, and what has to be done in order to be able to use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homar Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 See http://memcached.org/ for more detail. In short, it's a key-value store that can be used for caching almost anything - database queries, fully or partially rendered template files, ect. It's generally used for database heavy high traffic sites. CubeCart offers it as a caching storage mechanism. With memcached you won't have hundreds or thousands of files stored in the /cache/ directory. The key-value hash is stored in memory. This can give much faster access than file based caching. If you want to use it, you'll need a memcached server. Some hosting companies offer this as an addon (e.g. https://addons.heroku.com/memcache). I should say that it will probably have very little benefit for small low traffic websites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Thanks for the explanation. I think we fall in the category of it not being useful for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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