As far as I know, the "Front-Line Cache" is basically a full-page cache (similar to what a frontend proxy like Varnish or Pound would do). Your code doesn't tell it what to cache, it just works it out based on Expires response headers and If-Modified-Since request headers. Note that I have not tried the Cherokee front-line cache yet, so this is just speculation (but I think this is how it works).
Memcached still has its places - If you want to cache data that's used on all pages, you would probably still use Memcached. Personally I use XCache's variable cache for some of my sites. I already used XCache for PHP opcode caching so it made sense to me (didn't want to install a whole new program just for caching). APC has a variable cache too, I believe. - Daniel ________________________________ From: Arman Javaherian <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 8:23:29 AM Subject: [Cherokee] Cherokee or Memcached or Both? I'm launching a fairly dynamic website(HTML, JavaScript, PHP) that makes multiple API calls to different sources to build an 'upcoming concert events in your area' result list for my users. My plan originally was to use Memcached installed on my cPanel/LAMP server setup to cache all the API responses. Then, I came across Cherokee and I was intrigued, to say the least. I'm hoping someone from this group will be able to give me a recommendation. Would Cherokee's Front-Line cache replace Memcached? Would they work together? How would my website code tell Cherokee's Front-Line cache what to cache? I read the documentation on the Cherokee-Project website for the Front-Line cache but still not 100% sure how it would work with my site or with Memcached. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. I'm a fairly novice server admin (just know basic SSH), so if Cherokee's cache implementation is too technical, that may drive my decision in and of itself. _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
