If you're looking to verify connectivity from your application server to your Memcached server, a simple CURL request won't do (much to my dismay). Instead, you'll need to use either Telnet or Netcat (nc) to poll the Memcached server for it's stats, this can be done like so: Memcached Telnet Connectivity Test First, open a telnet session to your Memcached server on the … [Read more...] about How to Test Memcached Connectivity