Another Memcached User

[Jeraimee Hughes]

We have successfully placed memcached into production here at Revelex. 
We have started by using memcached as a storage system for our PHP 
sessions. As of this email we have 57,360 sessions across 3 servers 
(our expire time is 30 minutes). We host over 650 Web sites with heavy 
session use.

Since bringing memcached online we have had a total of 566,509 gets and 
566,361 sets in less then 24 hours (again across 3 servers). Having run 
less then 24 hours we'll soon find out what lies ahead but so far we 
have great results.

We have tried using MySQL, NFS-mounted flat-files and even NFS-mounted 
RAM drives to no avail. To date, only memcached has been able to keep 
up with our needs.

Future use includes caching of specific objects and/or values to be 
shared across objects and potentially utilizing memcached with some 
reporting methods.

Thanks to Brad for a great tool and Antony for a great PHP extension.

If anyone else has used memcached in this method please feel free to 
comment and provide some insight as to what we may look out for.

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Jeraimee Hughes
Application Director
Revelex, Inc.
http://www.revelex.com/


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Jeraimee Hughes
Application Director
Revelex, Inc.
561.988.5588