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Install and configure memcached for Magento 1.5.0.1 on RedHat 5.5

Posted by Anthony Taliercio on May 15, 2011 in Magento | 1 comment

Magento is a very powerful shopping cart.  Because there are so many requests to the database during each load it’s speed is depentant upon MySQL. Memcached is a memory caching system used to speed up dynamic database driven websites by caching MySQL in RAM. The service allows MySQL database tables to be stored in memory, thus increasing the speed of Magento.Installing memcached on RedHat 5.5 to speed up Magento 1.5.0.1 Magento is a very powerful shopping cart.  Because there are so many requests to the database during each page load it’s speed is bottlenecked by MySQL. The...