I think this echo's Rene's point about moving the cache closer to the application as well. I have some hypothetical numbers illustrating the impact of network

I think this echo's Rene's point about moving the cache closer to the application as well. I have some hypothetical numbers illustrating the impact of network latency: http://www.tocker.ca/2013/11/18/how-important-is-it-to-merge-queries-together.html http://www.tocker.ca/2013/11/18/how-important-is-it-to-merge... The simple queries are basically free once they get to MySQL. Query cache does not help.