What? Memcached is a distributed cache that you run internally to speed up
retrieval of data from your database or similar, it doesn't do anything to
the amount of data your webservers have to send out to your users, but it
can make them respond faster.

Latency, yes. Less network traffic, absolutely not.


/Henrik

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:39, mel_06 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> what i meant was, would memcached be the best to used for the latency
> and lesser network traffic of my music social networking site?
>
> On Aug 28, 2:23 pm, Joseph Engo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Memcached isn't what you want.  If you want to cache files, you might
> > want to look at varnish or squid.
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:19 PM, mel_06 wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > hi again guys,
> >
> > > i'm doing a social networking site relates to music, i need some
> > > advice on caching on images, videos and audio files. thanks!
>

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