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# Improve Wordpress speed with Memcached

In this tutorial, we will install and activate "MemcacheD Is Your Friend" on Wordpress to reduce the server load and improve the site speed.

## Install and activate "MemcacheD Is Your Friend"

[Memcached](https://memcached.org/) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read.

### Activate Memcache and Memcached from PHP Selector

1. Login into your cPanel account

2. Go to **Select PHP version**

3. **Enable memcache and memcached extensions**

For more information about PHP Selector, please refer to the following [article](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/635).

### Activate Memcached server for your account

1. Login into your cPanel account

2. Go to **Mocha Memcached**

3. Click on **Enable**, then on **Start**

### Activate MemcacheD Is Your Friend in WordPress

1. Login to your Wordpress admin dashboard

2. Go to **Plguins**

3. Click on **Add New**

4. In search form, type **"MemcacheD Is Your Friend"**

5. Click on **Install Now, then Activate**

6. Now, login into your cPanel account and open **wp-config.php** with cPanel file manager

7. Add the following two lines **before MySQL setting** in wp-config.php

`define('WP\_CACHE', true); $memcached\_servers = array( 'default' => array('/home/myuser/memcached.sock:0'));`

Note: Replace **/home/myuser/memcached.sock** with the path to your memcached unix socket, it can be viewed from **cPanel -> Mocha Memcached**.

8. You can view Memcached statistics from **cPanel -> Mocha Memcached**