Memcached is a data caching system, which is used to increase the speed of database-powered websites by caching the calls and the replies between the user and the server. In simple terms, every time a particular web page on such a website is visited, the script queries its database to get the information that should be shown to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to go to a different page, the whole operation is carried out again and this results in plenty of database queries and excessive server load, particularly if the website has lots of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these pages is opened again, the script no longer needs to fetch any information from the database, as everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall speed of your website will "soar" and you’ll have more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to browse your site faster. Plus, Memcached updates its cache if any information in the database is altered, so the users will never wind up seeing outdated data.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached distributed memory object caching system with all shared hosting service offered by our company. It is available as an upgrade, which you can enable with only a few clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud platform, so you can start using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you would like to use it for. The first part specifies the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, while the second one refers to the memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more data will be cached, which may be a pretty good idea for traffic-heavy sites with large databases and plenty of visitors. In this way, you can optimize the loading speed of any script-powered website hosted on our cloud servers without any efforts.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can add the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated servers that we’re offering and make use of its full capacity for any script-driven Internet site hosted on our servers. The upgrade is offered through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can select two things – the number of instances and the amount of memory. These things indicate how many websites can use the Memcached platform and the amount of system memory that it will use to store your info. You can select them separately, since one instance is not bound to a particular amount of system memory, so you can use plenty of memory for one large-sized website, for example. This feature is available in increments of 16 megabytes and you can get as much memory as you want. The Memcached platform can be used with any script-powered site regardless of its nature, including those based on widely used software apps like Drupal™, Joomla™ or WordPress, and plenty of companies like Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to increase the performance of their sites.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached is offered by default with each and every VPS server offered by us as long as you select Hepsia as your Control Panel, so you will not have to pay any extra cash to be able to use the full capacity of this data caching system. The more powerful Virtual Private Server hosting plan you select, the more system memory Memcached will have for content storage purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred MB all the time, which is much more than what you would get with a shared hosting package. This will enable you to use the Memcached caching system for multiple Internet sites, irrespective of how busy they are, which in turn means that you can use a lower-end plan for them without overloading the VPS. The caching system is suitable for script-driven software applications such as Joomla™, WordPress, OpenCart or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom-made app. Soon after you activate the Memcached system, it will start caching content and you will perceive the improved performance of your websites.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Any dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the caching system once the dedicated server is ready, without the need to install or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the dedicated server that you’ve selected, but as our servers are unbelievably powerful and due to the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-consuming websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be three gigabytes. This will enable you to accelerate the performance of very large websites with ease and you will distinguish the difference soon after Memcached starts caching database queries. You can use the Memcached system with any database-powered web portal, including those that are based on widely used CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.