Turck MMCache worth it / work on CPanel?

[Promethyl]

Has anyone installed Turck MMCache yet? I've been hearing some fantastic things about it, and I want to hear it from other CPanel users before installing it.

http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/

[mr.wonderful]

Originally posted by Promethyl
Has anyone installed Turck MMCache yet? I've been hearing some fantastic things about it, and I want to hear it from other CPanel users before installing it.

http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/

It works great however you have to remember one thing. If your or any of your sites install ioncude and scripts that rely on iconcude those sites will be rendered useless, inoperable.

[wtl]

What a lot of folks don't realize is that the latest ioncube loaders are MMCache compatible, so you needn't worry about incompatibility, provided you are up to date with the loaders.

[mr.wonderful]

Originally posted by wtl
What a lot of folks don't realize is that the latest ioncube loaders are MMCache compatible, so you needn't worry about incompatibility, provided you are up to date with the loaders.

Are you sure about that? It's not mmcache problem.

I talked to ioncube developer and they are the ones who are preventing their loader from working with mmcache.

The reason he gave me was that mmcache is open source and they are afraid on the security of their loader if enabled mmcache to work with it.

But he said that they will might increase the security of their loader and then allow mmcache. (I am not sure when will that happen)

[wtl]

http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php

seems to suggest compatibility with mmcache.

[mr.wonderful]

Originally posted by wtl
http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php

seems to suggest compatibility with mmcache.

Ye wtl thats great however in order to take advantage of that the software such as DRAMS which uses Iocube for example, must be compiled using the this version and unless the developers have compiled the code with this version its pretty much useless with MMCache.

Also...

Im looking for evidence that its compatible with MMCache and dont see that. That link says nothing about MMCache. You would think that if it was compatiable they would list that in their software options.

[Promethyl]

This is now a great thread.

I wanted to ask, because I have to make, and then make install, if I install this using the installation instructions,
and then I go to install a higher version using the WHM, will it break?

Do you guys run mmcache?

I have several webpages which are heavy database load, but change infrequently, so this might by the way to go...

[wtl]

Originally posted by mr.wonderful
Ye wtl thats great however in order to take advantage of that the software such as DRAMS which uses Iocube for example, must be compiled using the this version and unless the developers have compiled the code with this version its pretty much useless with MMCache.

I guess one would hope that up to date software is being compiled with the latest ioncube encoder. We use Drams+ ourselves, I'll have to test it out and see how it goes. I've been meaning to install MMCache, just haven't yet had the time.

[wtl]

Originally posted by mr.wonderful
Also...

Im looking for evidence that its compatible with MMCache and dont see that. That link says nothing about MMCache. You would think that if it was compatiable they would list that in their software options.

From that page:

User selectable compatibility with OpenSource extensions, e.g. mmcache

Perhaps what that means is that not only must the app be compiled with the latest encoder, but that the compiling user must specifically instruct the encoder to make it opensource extension compatible?

[perlchild]

Originally posted by wtl
From that page:



Perhaps what that means is that not only must the app be compiled with the latest encoder, but that the compiling user must specifically instruct the encoder to make it opensource extension compatible?

In this case "user" means "developer" if they would use clearer language, I'm sure everyone would benefit.
Software like modernbill and lpanel, both of which are rather up to date on loader versions(last I checked) will not work on mmcache, so I had to disable it(modernbill in zend encoder version works but not ioncube version)

Since encoded versions of hosting billing automation software(think resellers) is probably one of the most prevalent uses of encoding, this is really unfortunate too. I built a forum-optimized server recently with mmcache and it's absolutely blindingly fast and very stable, I heartily recommend it.
As long as you don't have ioncube-software on the box.