Server
Server
Which one is best?
There is so much to think about when choosing which type of server
You've got to think about capital costs, maintenance costs, software requirements and relevance.
We can help you with this - whether it's maintaining an existing website or developing a completely new one.
Memcached
When your database can't keep up with the demands of your application, one option open to you instead of buying better or more hardware to power your database is to add a caching layer to your application or website.
This is used, for example, to keep a copy of a repeating part of your website, like a header, for re-use, rather than having to rebuild it using information from the database every time a page is viewed. This saves your database's time for where its really needed and allows the same hardware to serve more simultaneous users.
Memcached is a popular piece of software that is used to aid caching - the repeating part of the website is stored in memory using memcached and can then be retrieved instantly when it is required again. Whilst memcached is not the only way to achieve this, you can for example just save the information to disk, memcached is generally the best option and is probably the most widely used. It offers very fast storage and retrieval because it is in memory. It also offers effective mechanisms to invalidate cache and libraries exist to allow it to be used from a range of programming languages.
Memcached also comes with features to allow a cache pool to be shared across a number of servers, which avoids every server in the pool having to duplicate the work - offering obvious, and significant, performance benefits.
Memcached enables some of the worlds largest sites to keep going including Facebook, Slashdot, Youtube and Twitter
To see examples of work produced for customer please see our work. For more information please contact our Bristol office.
Apache Http Server
Apache is an open source HTTP (web) server - which means it is a piece of software that sits on a server and communicates with the web browser on your computer, sending the information you see on the screen and your feedback to and fro over the internet.
Apache is the most widely used HTTP server, partly because it is a free open source piece of software, and partly because it can do just about everything you could ask of a web server either itself or by one of the many available plugin modules (for example, secure SSL communication, or URL rewriting). And if it can't do something, you can add it by creating your own plugin module.
The current latest version is apache 2.2, which is available for a range of operating systems including Windows, Linux, MAC OS and UNIX. It forms the A in the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and the WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) stacks.
To see examples of work produced for customer please see our work. For more information please contact our Bristol office.
Iis6
Internet Information Service (IIS) is a set of services created for use with Microsoft Windows.
If you are interested in bringing your IIS6 website to Wired Media or require a Windows website/application developed to run on IIS then please contact our Bristol office.
Vpn
All of our servers and office locations are accessed only via vpn. This makes them very secure.
To have a vpn setup contact our Bristol office.
Wamp Stack
WAMP is an acronym, referring a commonly used collection of software for hosting websites - Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP
To see examples of work produced for customer please see our work. For more information please contact our Bristol office.
Lamp Stack
LAMP is an acronym, referring a commonly used collection of software for hosting websites - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
To see examples of work produced for customer please see our work. For more information please contact our Bristol office.
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