Memcached is a data caching platform, which is used to optimize the speed of database-powered sites by caching the calls and the responses between the website visitor and the server. In other words, every time a particular web page on such a site is accessed, the script calls its database to request the information that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a hyperlink to go to a different web page, the whole process is carried out again and this results in multiple database requests and higher load on the server, especially if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so in case any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to fetch any information from the database, since everything is delivered by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall speed of your website will increase and you’ll enjoy more gratified visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your site much faster. Also, Memcached updates its cache when any content in the database is modified, so the website users will never end up seeing outdated content.

Memcached in Web Hosting

You can use the Memcached memory caching system with all Linux web hosting packages that we offer. It is available as an upgrade, which you can acquire with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It needs an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more versatility depending on the Internet sites that you wish to use it for. The first one specifies the number of the sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a really good idea for high-traffic sites with large databases and lots of simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can supercharge the loading speed of any script-driven Internet site hosted on our cloud servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get any of our semi-dedicated server plans, you will find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades part of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you want to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in your account, you can add it with just a few clicks. The distributed memory object caching platform is perfect for any script-driven application such as Joomla™, WordPress, or even a custom-built app, and depending on your demands, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use the Memcached platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will use. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you manage a traffic-consuming website with lots of data, you can get one instance and a larger amount of system memory. The Memcached platform will improve the overall performance of your Internet sites soon after you enable it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy faster loading times.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Any dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using the distributed memory object caching system once the dedicated server is assembled, without needing to install or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the server that you’ve chosen, but since our servers are very powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you will host resource-intensive sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be 3 gigabytes. This will permit you to accelerate the performance of very popular websites with ease and you will observe the difference shortly after Memcached begins caching database queries. You can take advantage of the Memcached caching system with any database-powered web portal, including those that are based on widely used CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.