Posted: Sat, 04/14/2012 - 12:42pm by Rich
One of the things that I really like about Drupal 7 is how much easier it is to set up caching than in Drupal 6. It was as simple as installing Varnish, APC, and Memcache on my server, installing a few Drupal modules for my site, and updating my Drupal site's settings.php file.
Varnish
Posted: Sat, 03/10/2012 - 9:22pm by Rich
This site launch marks quite a few firsts for me. Although I've worked with the technologies before, this is the first time I've launched a site running memcache, Varnish, and Apache Solr that I've set up myself. For a little bit of context, memcache and Varnish both help boost the performance of websites and web applications. Memcache caches objects in memory to reduce database load, while Varnish is a reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator that essentially caches the contents of webpages, keeping load off of the webserver (in my case, Apache) itself.