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Memcached is a distributed memory caching system and it caches data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read.

Like APC, the installation is simple.

1. Install Memcached.

• apt-get install memcached

2. After the installation, you could start and stop the servers by the following commands.

• /etc/init.d/memcached start
• /etc/init.d/memcached stop

3. Install Memcached PHP module.

• apt-get install php5-memcached

4. Restart PHP-FPM

• /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart

5. Check it out.

 

6. You could configure Memcached @ /etc/php5/conf.d/memcached.ini.

Done =)

Reference: Life in apps, os’s and code! – Installing APC and Memcached on Ubuntu 12.04 with nginx