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The most reliable, powerful, and easy way to use Memcached on DigitalOcean

In the world of web development, performance is paramount. As developers, we constantly seek ways to optimize our applications, ensuring a seamless user experience that keeps visitors returning for more. One of the most effective techniques for achieving lightning-fast web app performance is caching, and when it comes to caching, Memcached is a widely recognized and trusted solution. If you’re using DigitalOcean to host your applications, you’re in luck! This blog post will introduce you to the most reliable, powerful, and easy way to use Memcached on DigitalOcean: MemCachier.

Configure W3 Total Cache with Memcached and SASL Authentication on DigitalOcean

In this tutorial, you’ll install WordPress as a 1-Click Droplet on DigitalOcean. You’ll then install the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin and configure it to use Memcached with SASL authentication, using a Memcached-compliant cache provisioned by MemCachier. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a fully functional WordPress site running on DigitalOcean with enhanced performance thanks to the W3 Total Cache plugin and Memcached.

Configure W3 Total Cache to use Memcached with SASL Authentication on AWS Lightsail

In this tutorial, you’ll install WordPress on AWS Lightsail. You’ll then install the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin and configure it to use Memcached with SASL authentication, using a Memcached-compliant cache provisioned by MemCachier. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a fully functional WordPress site running on Amazon Lightsail with enhanced performance thanks to the W3 Total Cache plugin and Memcached.

Deploy a Django Application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and scale it with Memcache

Want to deploy a Django application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk that is ready to scale? In this tutorial, you’ll set up an Elastic Beanstalk environment, hook it up to a MySQL database, deploy a Django application, and finally use Memcache to speed it up.

Debug, Optimize and Monitor Your Memcache With the MemCachier Advanced Analytics Dashboard

Debugging a Memcached cache can be challenging. A cache often seems like a black box, cumbersome to view its contents and complicated to evaluate its performance. MemCachier’s advanced analytics tools enable you to troubleshoot, optimize and monitor your memcache so you can cache effectively with confidence.

Deploy an Express.js application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and scale it with Memcached

Express is a massively popular framework for Node and is a tried and tested choice for building fast web apps and APIs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. It offers a quick and efficient way to deploy your Express app.

Build a WordPress One-Click application on DigitalOcean and scale it with Memcache

One-click applications are also known as Marketplace images.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating a simple WordPress One-Click application on DigitalOcean and then adding Memcache to prevent or alleviate a performance bottleneck.

How to boost your SEO with Memcache: A ClickMechanic case study

Page load times are an essential factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. So ensuring landing pages load as quickly as possible is critical for SEO. ClickMechanic uses MemCachier to speed up thousands of landing pages by caching entire pages as well as composable page components to speed up on-demand page generation.

Advanced Analytics for Caching

In recent month our analytics dashboard has received a fresh new look. More than just the surface has changed though, the whole stack has been re-engineered from scratch. This new stack allowed us to add several new features such as more comprehensive metrics and the ability to set alerts. Now we are finally ready to introduce the first advanced feature our new analytics stack can offer: cache introspection.

Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and scale it with Memcache

Want to deploy a Ruby on Rails application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk that is ready to scale? We’ll explore how to set up your Elastic Beanstalk environment, hook it up to a database, deploy your application, and finally how to use Memcache to speed it up.

We’ll walk you through creating the application from start to finish, but you can view the finished product source code here.