What is server side caching? What are the ways of server side caching? Which is the best when it comes to performance improvement? Setting objects in session comes in which category ?
-Thanks [ February 22, 2008: Message edited by: perindevi ]
Server side caching is the act of caching data on the server. Data can be cached anywhere and at any point on the server that makes sense. It is common to cache commonly used data from the DB to prevent hitting the DB every time the data is required. We cache the results from competition scores since the operation is expensive in terms of both processor and database usage. It is also common to cache pages or page fragments so that they don't need to be generated for every visitor.
There is no 'best', as firstly caching can have down sides such as requiring more memory or always providing slightly old data.
Setting objects on the session is usually done to maintain session state for a user and not for data caching. Caching is typically done for shared data.
These articles are very old and don't make use of the latest features. You should check things like OSCache, which can also provide caching of responses.
Yes, I did find OSCache to be quite popular when I browsed. I will check it out thanks. Also, I found this that I found interesting and with some good tips.
