In this tutorial, we will install and activate "MemcacheD Is Your Friend" on Wordpress to reduce the server load and improve the site speed.
Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read.
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Login into your cPanel account
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Go to Select PHP version
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Enable memcache and memcached extensions
For more information about PHP Selector, please refer to the following article.
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Login into your cPanel account
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Go to Mocha Memcached
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Click on Enable, then on Start
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Login to your Wordpress admin dashboard
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Go to Plguins
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Click on Add New
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In search form, type "MemcacheD Is Your Friend"
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Click on Install Now, then Activate
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Now, login into your cPanel account and open wp-config.php with cPanel file manager
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Add the following two lines before MySQL setting in wp-config.php
define('WP\_CACHE', true); $memcached\_servers = array( 'default' => array('/home/myuser/memcached.sock:0'));
Note: Replace /home/myuser/memcached.sock with the path to your memcached unix socket, it can be viewed from cPanel -> Mocha Memcached.
- You can view Memcached statistics from cPanel -> Mocha Memcached
