Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years thanks to its effectiveness. It is used to cache queries and responses between a database and the app that is using it, which can improve the performance of your Internet site and lessen the created server load greatly. Every time a web page on an application-driven Internet site is accessed, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be shown, and then drags it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, as the platform has already cached all of the content that should appear on a given page. In case any data is edited, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the users will never end up seeing out-of-date data. Memcached is a perfect solution for any website that entices plenty of viewers, as it will increase its loading speed and will enhance the overall user experience.

Memcached in Hosting

When you host script-driven websites in a hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add the Memcached distributed memory caching system to your web hosting plan with only a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the needed PHP extension is pre-installed on our leading-edge cloud platform, you can start using it straight away. To give you more versatility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (i.e. how many sites will use Memcached) and to the system memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order memory as many times as you wish. Logically, the more memory the Memcached caching system is allowed to use, the more data it will cache, so if you’ve got a high-traffic site with lots of data, you may need more memory so as to be able to take advantage of the power that Memcached can give you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can add the Memcached distributed memory caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated plans offered by us and use its full capacity for any script-driven website hosted by us. The upgrade is offered through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can choose two things – the instances and the amount of memory. These things define the number of the websites that can use the Memcached caching platform and the amount of system memory that it will use to store your data. You can choose them independently, since one instance is not bound to a particular amount of system memory, so you can use lots of memory for a single resource-heavy website, for instance. This feature comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can get as much memory as you like. The Memcached platform can be used with any script-driven site irrespective of its nature, including those that are based on widespread Internet applications like WordPress, Joomla™ or Drupal™, and a lot of companies like Wikipedia and Zynga are already using it to boost the loading speed of their sites.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the memory caching system the moment the server is up and running, without having to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the server that you have selected, but as our servers are stunningly powerful and given the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-intensive websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 GB. This will allow you to accelerate the performance of extremely busy Internet sites effortlessly and you will distinguish the difference soon after Memcached starts caching database calls. You can take full advantage of the system with any database-driven portal, including those that are based on widely used CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.