Memcached is a distributed memory caching system, which is used to improve the speed of database-powered websites by caching the queries and the replies between the user and the server. In other words, anytime a certain web page on such a site is requested, the script queries its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. If the latter clicks a link to open another web page, the whole operation is repeated and this leads to a lot of database calls and higher server load, particularly if the site has lots of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is opened again, the script no longer has to extract any content from the database, since everything is provided by the caching platform. Thus, the overall loading speed of your website will increase and you’ll enjoy more satisfied visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your website much faster. At the same time, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache if any data in the database is altered, so the site users will never see out-of-date data.

Memcached in Shared Web Hosting

You can use the Memcached caching system with all Linux shared web hosting offered by our company. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can add with only a couple of clicks through your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system once you add 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 one shows the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for regularly visited websites with large-sized databases and plenty of simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can enhance the loading speed of any script-powered website hosted on our servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you order any 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’d like to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in your semi-dedicated server hosting account, you can activate it with just a few clicks of the mouse. The distributed memory caching platform is ideal for any script-based software application such as Joomla™, WordPress, or even an in-house made one, and depending on your necessities, you will be able to choose two separate features – how many websites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will employ. The two features are not bound to each other, so if you run a traffic-heavy Internet site with lots of content, you can get one instance and a larger amount of memory. The Memcached platform will increase the performance of your websites soon after you enable it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy much better loading speeds.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

You’ll get Memcached with any of the virtual private server packages that we are offering if you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the platform through the Control Panel section with the same name. The configuration requires a couple of mouse clicks and you will see the difference in the overall performance of your sites almost instantaneously. The amount of memory that Memcached can employ to cache information depends on the particular Virtual Private Server hosting package that you’ve selected, but in any case it will be at least several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple data-loaded websites. You can use Memcached with sites driven by WordPress, Joomla™ or any other Internet application and lower the load on your virtual server, which will enable you to continue using the current VPS plan rather than switching to a more powerful one, as you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites such as Reddit, Zynga and Wikipedia, which proves its effectiveness.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Each dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the object caching system as soon as the dedicated server is completely operational, without the need to activate or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can employ depends on the dedicated server that you have picked, but as our servers are incredibly powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-requiring Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 GB. This will allow you to enhance the overall performance of extremely popular Internet sites without any effort and you will distinguish the difference soon after the Memcached system starts caching database calls. You can make full use of the Memcached caching system with any database-powered website, including those based on widely used Content Management Systems such as Joomla™ and WordPress.