Install Memcached server on Windows

Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. It works on most Linux and BSD like systems. There is no official support for windows builds.

In order to use it on Windows, you will either have to build it yourself or use a pre-built one by someone else.

Here is one of them, https://github.com/jefyt/memcached-windows, the current version is 1.6.8.

  1. Visite https://github.com/jefyt/memcached-windows/releases
  2. Find the latest release and download the appropriate file according to your system (win32 or win64).
  3. Extract the zip file and double click memcached.exe file in the bin directory.