Monthly Archives: March 2010

PHP open_basedir and Magento Performance

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Brad

The PHP open_basedir directive is a security feature within PHP that allows you to specify which files PHP is allowed to be opened. With open_basedir, you specify the directory tree or trees that PHP can open and PHP will not … Continue reading →

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Enabling Memcached in Magento

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Brad

To help increase the speed of Magento page loads as much as possible, it is recommended to use the Memcached support built within Magento. Memcached is a high-performance memory object caching system that is designed to speed page loads on … Continue reading →

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