Jeff Martens <jmart...@gmail.com> writes: > Probably a newbie question but something I've been wondering. If you > host your site/app at host A and then your memcached nodes at host C, > does not having the memcached nodes on the same network result in > diminished value of using memcached in the first place?
Slightly confusing terminology there. "host" usually refers to a machine. It's common to have application and cache software on different hosts, but... > Example: If someone uses Rackspace for the site/app, is there any > point in using EC2 Elasticache? Or does having them on two different > networks cancel out and benefits? The latency will be ridiculous. The things your caching will need to be quite expensive to have cache requests across the internet to be beneficial. -- dustin
