Using Cache in laravel

I am using laravel 5.8. I know laravel support memcached & redis. If i go for Redis, what should i do? Do i need to buy something for my hosting??

How to get these values?

'redis' => [

'client' => 'predis',

'default' => [
    'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
    'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
    'database' => env('REDIS_DB', 0),
],

'cache' => [
    'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
    'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
    'database' => env('REDIS_CACHE_DB', 1),
],

I am new to it. Can anyone explain step by step what should i do?

I have doubt i should buy/configure on my hosting as well? do i need to buy server for it?

Sti3bas

6 years ago

Level 53

@engrlaravel yes, you need to have Redis installed on your server.

There are a lot of tutorials which explains how to do that: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-redis-on-ubuntu-18-04

If you're not good at managing servers Laravel Forge can do that for you: https://forge.laravel.com

engrlaravel

6 years ago

Level 2

@sti3bas : Once Redis is installed, what extra changes/configurations do i need on laravel & DB side?

Also for Memcached, do i need to install on server?

Sti3bas

6 years ago

Level 53

@engrlaravel just follow the docs: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/redis

engrlaravel

6 years ago

Level 2

@sti3bas : thank you for your reply.

I can see this on documentation "Predis has been abandoned by the package's original author and may be removed from Laravel in a future release."

So what alternative we should use?

What about mencached? how that can be configured on server?

Sti3bas

6 years ago

Best Answer

Level 53

@engrlaravel the alternative is mentioned in the docs:

Before using Redis with Laravel, we encourage you to install and use the PhpRedis PHP extension via PECL. The extension is more complex to install but may yield better performance for applications that make heavy use of Redis.

Memcached should also be installed on your server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-memcached-on-ubuntu-16-04

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