Laravel 4: Caching JSON Response

Question

I'm totally new to Laravel, and i need to cache a JSON response every 60 min. Saw that Laravel offers lots of caching modules: File, Redis, Memcached, APC.. Which one would suite best for my need? I've red that Memcached and APC are the fastest.

And another thing, when i define caching

Cache::put('key', 'value', $minutes);

should be defined inside Controller or Model?

Answer 1

Well, there's a big difference in caching to a file system or memcached. Memcached has many advantages but keep in mind that the data is stored in the memory, while files are stored on the hard drive, which is much cheaper.

I would say if you're building a smaller site, with not so much traffic, file caching is the better way to go. You want feel the difference that much on sites like that, so no need to over-optimize because of a few milliseconds.