Is there a way to get a web server to use memory caching, but in a way
that plays well with Rails caching?
Apache has memory caching (mod_mem_cache), as I understand… but we
cannot use it because Rails sweepers cannot expire cached pages?
The reason I ask – for all the talk about how fast Lighttpd is, it’s
not preferable to have a web server reading files off disk with every
request? Or have I missed something?
I guess the ideal setup would involve something like Memcached.
Somehow, the webserver would keep the most popular static items in
Memcached. Anything not found in Memcached can be found in /public on
disk. ActionController would expire items in Memcached as well as on
the disk.
Something like this would give worthwhile performance boosts?
Jason