Amazon ElastiCache – Memcached server cloud hosting for Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services announces a new product, Amazon ElastiCache – which is basically usingMemcached server – a scalable distributed in-memory cache server for cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2. Check out Amazon AWS blog for further details on Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache FAQ is here.

Installing APC Alternative PHP Cache

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & Apache2) This guide explains how to integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system (with Apache2). APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It’s similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and XCache.