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Originally posted by KidCock
Definately worth it 
However also depends on what situation you're in. If you run a low-traffic site with one webserver, I doubt it will help you as much as it does us on IwantU (high traffic and load, running from 15 webservers).
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15 webservers ? ... you are doing something wrong ..
a friend of mine runs his large dating site off one web- and one databaseserver .. (P4 2,8 ghz with 2 gig ram each) ..
he has more than 800,000 page impressions each day , plus it is not just a cheap dating site but based upon a "yes/no" system where only a match can write a match ..
so go figure 25 million votes in one table being selected on several inner joins against other tables with 14+ million votes in one query on a super busy cheap webserver .. the query executes in less than 0.1 seconds and the load is rarely above 0.8 ..
this is what I call performance and being cost productive ..
the success and costs of a project is based on the database structure ..
btw, the free turck mm cache is used on his server and not zend ps ..
15 webservers? .. my advice again: fire your programmers ..