Memcached is a distributed memory caching system, which is used to improve the overall performance of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the replies between the user and the server. In other words, anytime a particular web page on such a site is opened, the script connects to its database to request the information that should be shown to the website visitor. If the latter clicks a hyperlink to visit a different page, the entire procedure is executed again and this leads to a lot of database calls and higher load on the server, even more so if the site has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these pages is opened again, the script no longer needs to extract any info from the database, since everything is delivered by the caching platform. Thus, the overall speed of your site will "soar" and you will enjoy more gratified visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your website faster. Moreover, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache when any data in the database is modified, so the users will never end up seeing outdated data.

Memcached in Shared Web Hosting

You can take advantage of the Memcached object caching system with all Linux shared web hosting services offered by our company. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can activate with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system as soon as you order it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the websites that you’d like to use it for. The first part determines the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for traffic-heavy websites with very large databases and lots of concurrent visitors. In this way, you can accelerate the loading speed of any script-driven site hosted on our servers with ease.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you order one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you’ll find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you want to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in your semi-dedicated server hosting account, you can enable it with only a couple of clicks. The memory caching platform is suitable for any script-powered web application like WordPress, Joomla™, or even an in-house made app, and depending on your necessities, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many websites will use the Memcached caching platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory that the platform will employ. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you manage a regularly visited site with lots of data, you can get one instance and a large amount of memory. The Memcached platform will increase the performance of your sites soon after you activate it and both you and your site visitors will enjoy better load times.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

If you get a virtual private server from us, you will be able to use Memcached at no additional price, as the memory caching platform is available with all servers ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. Even if you’ve got traffic-hungry websites, you can accelerate their performance without effort and the reduced load on the Virtual Private Server will enable you to keep using your current Virtual Private Server hosting plan instead of switching to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache data depends on the package that you are using, but even with a less powerful one, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes, which is considerably more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting plan, so the website performance boost will be noticeable. You can take advantage of Memcached with any database-powered app, regardless of whether you’ve set it up on your own or you are using a ready-for-use one like WordPress, Joomla™ or OpenCart.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using this distributed memory caching system once your dedicated server is up and running, without needing to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the dedicated server that you have selected, but since our servers are amazingly powerful and considering the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-requiring sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use is 3 GB. This will allow you to accelerate the overall performance of extremely busy websites effortlessly and you’ll observe the difference soon after the Memcached caching system starts caching database calls. You can take full advantage of the Memcached system with any database-powered site, including those that are based on popular CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.