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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] How does page-level caching work?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-how-does-page-level-caching-work/)
 *  Thread Starter [babadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/babadi/)
 * (@babadi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-how-does-page-level-caching-work/#post-1402786)
 * My original question may have been unclear, but I’m not looking for help making
   this work. I already have W3TC working 100% on apache with memcached. What I’m
   trying to do is better understand “how” it works. Given that apache cannot serve
   content directly out of memcached, I assume that means that my requests for cached
   pages are still hitting PHP, and the W3TC plug-in is intercepting the requests,
   pulling the cached page out of memcached, and returning it. Is that correct?
 * Even if it was intended as an aside, I think the idea letting W3TC cache pages
   into memcached and then having nginx serve content directly out of there is pretty
   intriguing. The most immediate issue I see is that W3TC uses MD5 hashes to generate
   its memcached keys, and I don’t see a way of generating MD5 hashes in the nginx
   config. But I’ll look into it more. Thanks for the idea.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] How does page-level caching work?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-how-does-page-level-caching-work/)
 *  Thread Starter [babadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/babadi/)
 * (@babadi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-how-does-page-level-caching-work/#post-1402592)
 * Yep, I’m interested in a multi-server configuration. So the memcached option 
   for page caching is specifically intended for nginx, then? I don’t think I saw
   nginx on the list of supported web servers, but it’d be good news to me if that
   works, as I’ve been thinking about giving nginx a try anyway. Thanks!

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