What type of websites does memcached speed up

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Published on 2010-03-27T05:56:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 6:03 UTC
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I have read this article about 400% boost of your website. This is done by a combination of nginx and memcached. The how-to part of this website is quite good, but i mis the part where it says to what types of websites this applies.

I know nginx is a http engine, I need no explanation for that.

I thought memcached had something to do with caching database result. However i don't understand what this has to do with the http request, can someone please explain that to me.

Another question I have is for what types of websites is this used. I have a website where the important part of the website consist of data that changes often. Often being minutes.

Will this method still apply to me, or should I just stick with the basic boring setup of apache and nothing else.

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