Re: Re: memcached (was: session and Multi Server Architecture)
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:22:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: memcached (was: session and Multi Server Architecture) | ||
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mike wrote:
> To me it isn't a memcached vs. session persistency debate. memcached
> to me is a cache layer for anything - if I wanted to use it for
> sessions, it's an added bonus (I'd probably make sure to use 3.0.0+ so
> I could ensure the data is in more than one server, losing people's
> session data is a crappy user experience :))
Cache layers are cheap - it's a known science after all. The key thing
(AFAICT) about memcached is that is _distributed_. You need this when
you don't have session persistency (session being the client-to-server
relationship).
/Per Jessen, Zürich