Site caching

[suzie]

Dear,
We want to create a new website, Newspaper Site, where data will change on Daily basis..
and we need to cache this site to speed up the site

can anyone help me with a good way to cache the site

thanks a lot

[big.nerd]

suzie,

What kind of caching are you talking about?

Are you planning on storing the data into a SQL database? If so - SQL Caching may or may not be required dependent on the number of visitors to the site, as well as what with your server is more efficient, i.e. SCSI disks have a very fast seek time making disk caching of very common SQL queries (verses a low SQL server) a good idea, however if you are on a virtual host environment with a dedicated Database server, it may just be easier & faster to have the info stored in the database..

Let us know what kind of caching you are planning on doing, and what BASIC architecture (i.e. PHP + MySQL + Apache + Linux, etc) you are planning on using, then we can make recommendations to suit the needs.

It would also help if you are able to estimate the number of hits you are targeting, and be realistic.

[suzie]

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your reply
Actually we have 2 servers. 1- Web server where the IIS is.
2- Database Server where SQL is.
OS used is the windows server 2003
so what we are using is PHP, IIS and SQL as database.

so I need a cache for web pages. where we don't need each time to regenerating the page.

we have 45000 visitors per day, 1000000 hits...

What Kind of cache do u advice me to use?

thank you...

[suzie]

Any Help Please....

[NogDog]

You could take a look at the PEAR Cache or Cache_Lite packages and see if you think they might suit your needs.

[Kudose]

APC might be a good option too as it is being adopted into PHP6. Granted it is off by default.