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make redis update section match nginx update section
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# Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael")
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sudo apt-get -y install build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev git libtool libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libpq-dev gawk curl pngcrush
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## Install latest stable redis, package in distro may be a bit old
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## Caching: Redis
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Redis is a networked, in memory key-value store cache. Without the Redis caching layer, we'd have to go to the database a lot more often for common information and the site would be slower as a result.
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Be sure to install the latest stable Redis, as the package in the distro may be a bit old:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rwky/redis
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sudo apt-get update

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