Memcached is a commonly used content caching platform, which can improve the loading speed and the overall performance of your Internet sites greatly if they use an API or a database. This is achieved by caching the requests to the database/API and the responses that are delivered, so when someone conducts a search for a particular product on your website, for instance, the database will not have to be accessed to return the results and the whole procedure will be performed much faster. This is valid for all types of database-powered applications and not only for web shops, since every time a particular web page is visited, the app sends a request to its database to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site open significantly faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any content in the database is edited, the cached replies will also be ‘refreshed’, so the users will not see any old info.

Memcached in Website Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached data caching system with all Linux website hosting plans that we’re offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can acquire with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system once you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more freedom depending on the sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one defines the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the system memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have added, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for high-traffic sites with large-size databases and many concurrent visitors. In this way, you can boost the overall performance of any script-driven website hosted on our cloud servers effortlessly.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you purchase any of our semi-dedicated server plans, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades part of the Hepsia Control Panel, so if you would like to use it for any of the sites hosted in your semi-dedicated server hosting account, you can enable it with only a few clicks of the mouse. The content caching platform is suitable for any script-powered app like Joomla™, WordPress, or even a custom one, and depending on your demands, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many websites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will employ. The two things are not bound to each other, so if you run a high-demand site with a lot of content, you can get one instance and a larger amount of memory. Memcached will increase the overall performance of your Internet sites soon after you activate it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy much faster load speeds.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached comes by default with all Linux VPS plans ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it needs so as to function correctly is compiled when the VPS is configured, so you can begin using the data caching platform as soon as your brand new Virtual Private Server is fully ready. The memory that Memcached can use depends on the particular plan, but even with the lower-end plans, you will get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal only for this platform. This will allow you to optimize the overall performance of numerous websites hosted on the server simultaneously and to reduce the load even if you own high-demand script-powered web pages with multiple visitors. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Drupal™ or Joomla™, or a custom one, and you’ll distinguish the better performance soon after you begin using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Memcached is available free of charge with all dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering and the one and only condition is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the distributed memory caching system for any database-powered site, including those that are based on widely used Internet apps – for example, a WordPress online blog or a Joomla™-powered social networking site. Each dedicated machine is tied to a given amount of system memory that the Memcached system can use, but the minimum amount you will get is 3 GB, which is sufficient enough to improve the loading speed of very heavy websites enormously, since this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached data. The system will start caching data once it’s enabled, so shortly after that, you’ll see the improved overall performance of your Internet sites and the decreased load on the dedicated machine. Numerous sites use Memcached to boost their efficiency, among them popular ones like Reddit and Wikipedia.