Comments on: Install XCache PHP Opcode Cacher on BlueHost Shared Server

By: SF

SF — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:04:10 +0000

When exaclty (witch line) in php.ini I need to put?
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=1

By: SF

SF — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:47:54 +0000

When I enabled php via fastcgi – all works fine!

By: Rishi

Rishi — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:58:58 +0000

Have you conducted benchmarks to verify this? Also, you should install XCache admin and see if any of the slots are being populated with data.

By: SF

SF — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:09:19 +0000

I installed this, phpinfo shows all correctly, but I have a zero speed performance with phpBB3 (xcache option enabled).

By: Rishi

Rishi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:00:23 +0000

Though I’ve never conducted any “formal” tests, I think XCache is a little faster (and a lot of the Internet community agrees) for simple PHP calls like those in WordPress. There’s no advantage to running both eAccelerator and XCache at the same time; in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of your scripts would just crash.

I never had any luck getting the admin interface set up with a password, so all I did was drag the “admin” folder in the XCache download to my site, renamed that folder to something only I would know, and then added the following to my php.ini with the other XCache directives: xcache.admin.enable_auth = 0

Then all you have to do is access the URL of your folder: (ie: yoursite.com/xcache-admin-folder-name/)

I’m glad you got the cacher working.

By: Art

Art — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:20:29 +0000

Is xCache better than eAccelerator?

Can you run them both at the same time?

How do you set up admin for xcache?

Cheers,

And thank you for this instructions they worked perfectly.

By: Cory Booth

Cory Booth — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:14:12 +0000

That little birdy was me…

I must admit, I noticed this problem immediately when BH upgraded PHP. I am running vBulletin as well and it failed when xcache dropped off.

However, no matter what I did at the time, I could not get the module to load using php.ini.

Appears the “released” version is now working and xCache now shows on php.ini.

Thanks very much for the instructions!

By: Rishi

Rishi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:50:04 +0000

A BlueHost user who used this walkthrough on his site was kind enough to inform me that XCache recently stopped working for him. Upon investigation, I realized this was true for RK.md too. After upgrading to the new distribution (1.3.0), I’m back in business. The original post has been updated to install the new distro.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:12 +0000

Hey Vladimir,

I’ve actually never heard of Varnish, but after looking into it, the project seems really good! I would imagine that the installation is similar to that of XCache, but I just don’t have time for the next few weeks (due to school) to actually install it for myself. I’ll write a guide as soon as I have some free time. Thanks for the comment!

By: vladimir

vladimir — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:18 +0000

Hi
I installed xcache according to your guide and it now works fine but there is another one that i found and which i believe could further improve performance – http cache varnish http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/. I’m struggling to find instalation guide like yours but there is none maybe if you can take a look?