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image from www.memcached.org Based on their official website memcached is defined as: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many [...]

One of the server I am using is running ubuntu. I am installing memcached on the server and every time I restart the web server I always have the error “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”. If you are having the same error then this post is for you. To solve the problem this is how I solved the problem. Open the cli and use the command to edit apache’s config file: [...]

By Default phpmyadmin can import data on your mysql database up to 2MB of data and beyond that will be an error.  This has been a big problem  by most webmasters and sometimes this can be a barrier to stop improving the sites.  Before I kept on searching what to use to import a large data on my MySQL database and all I can see is BigDump.  It is a software used for large and very large MySQL Dumps which [...]

Most web developers use a “third party” web server which comes in a package such as WAMP or XAMPP resulting to miss configuration of the web server to perform several capabilities.  One of which is allowing htaccess configuration to take over the webserver’s main configuration.  Even apache itself usage of htaccess is disabled by default and configuring the server is needed to allow htaccess on your server.  Below is how to allow htaccess on your web server: Bookmark on Delicious [...]