On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Richard K Miller wrote:
I recently turned on Memcache for our installations of MediaWiki.
(Memcache is the caching system used by LiveJournal, Facebook,
Wikipedia, Slashdot, and Digg. I could present about it at a
future UPHPU meeting.)
I have Mediawiki on one server and Memcache on another server,
connected to each other through a hardware firewall. Since we have
spare ports and the servers are in the same rack, would it be a
good idea (much faster?) to connect the servers directly to each
other and bind Memcache to that particular interface? Any reason
not to?
I think for most memcache installations that is how things are
done, for two reasons. First, memcache doesn't concern itself with
security or authentication. There just isn't any, and that's fine
as long as everyone keeps that in mind. The second, if the only
thing the memcache server is doing is memcache, then there is no
reason to put mediawiki <-> memcache traffic out on anything that
resembles a public network. I suspect you'll find most folks who
have memcache run the traffic over a private back haul network.
Often times that network is faster as well (gigabit instead of say
100mbit).
I just finished connecting the two servers directly and things are
zipping! Thanks for the recommendation.
BTW, the WordPress updates[1] out today are awesome!
Richard
[1] http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23/
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