LXer: How to Install Memcached on Ubuntu 18.04

LXer · 05-01-2019, 01:53 PM

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Memcached is a free and open-source high-performance in-memory key-value data store. It is most commonly used to speed up applications by caching various objects from results of database calls.

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greencedar · 05-01-2019, 05:43 PM

The article also states that the installation process is also viable for Ubuntu 16.04 and any Ubuntu-based distribution.

I did notice this statement that a person installing Memcached needs to read, understand, and be able to manage, carefully:

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Remote Access

When improperly configured Memcached can be used to perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. If you want to allow remote access to your Memcached server, you need to configure your firewall and allow access to the Memcached UDP port 11211 only from trusted clients.