Check out this great article by a MySQL expert who goes into detail how MySQL and web servers work and take on the load on servers. – link
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How to Add DNS Caching to Your Web Server!
If you have a website that uses a lot of API requests (such as dealing with Twitter), you can save a lot of server load/costs simply by installing DNS caching to your web server.
Each DNS request (every time you request from any domain name using an API) takes anywhere between 0 to 500 miliseconds. Sometimes, adding DNS caching to your web server can make your website load in 1 second versus 10 seconds.
Anyways, it’s easy to do and here’s how to do it on CentOS/Fedora linux servers: (Ubuntu should be similar, just use apt-get install of yum)
First install
How to Install DNS Cache on Your Linux Web Server!
If your website does a lot of queries via domain names such as aggregating RSS feeds or even a Twitter app site that accesses Twitter API, you might benefit from installing DNS cache on your linux web server.
For most, you would benefit from installing DNS cache because it will save you a ton of time for your server to fetch IP addreses. (could be anywhere between 5 to 500ms).
I’ve actually found a great article showing you how to do this on a Linux desktop computer. It actually works fine on web servers too.