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Just need a little advice here if anyone can help. Currently i have nginx running on a virtual private server, i am looking into installing node.js so i can use AjaxIM (http://ajaxim.com/) , and installing memcached, apc, and varnish. The main page of the site will probably be updated around once an hour, and i plan on just using the default settings for each caching plugin, so I am wondering if all of these are going to work together. Also, does anyone have any experience with node.js querying a mysql database, and would i be saving myself some trouble by skipping some of these plugins and just using node.js for the sake of speed.

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APC is “Alternative PHP Cache”, so it’s not at all useful for Node.js applications.

Leaving out APC, then yes, all these work great together, but unless you have a lot of semi-static content, you are probably not going to benefit all that much from Varnish, so you might leave that out for starters.

There is a whole host of options for accessing MySQL from Node.js. I haven’t used any of them, but db-mysql looks promising. It's part of Node.js DB – you can find some examples there.

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  • APC could be useful for Node.js in a way that it also acts as a data store that you can access. So if you have (a webserver with) PHP running with APC somewhere, you could fetch/store an object from APC with Node.js. – Bart Jan 16 '13 at 10:11