Memcached is a data caching platform, which has been gaining popularity lately because of its efficiency. It’s used to cache requests and replies between a database and the application that uses it, which can enhance the overall performance of your website and lessen the produced load immensely. Anytime a web page on an application-powered site is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, as the platform has already cached the content that should be displayed on a particular page. In case any content is changed, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the users will never end up seeing old content. Memcached is a perfect option for any website that attracts plenty of visitors, since it will make it amazingly fast and will improve the user experience.

Memcached in Cloud Web Hosting

Memcached comes as an optional upgrade with each and every cloud web hosting account that we offer and in case you would like to use it for any script-driven site that you host on our avant-garde cloud hosting platform, you will be able to add it in a couple of simple steps via your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be given the option to upgrade two separate things – the number of instances and the memory. The first one has to do with the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached memory caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several websites, you can get a number of instances. The second one has to do with the maximum amount of memory that the system will be permitted to use to cache information, so for lots of websites (or for one traffic-consuming site), you may want to get more memory for improved performance. The memory comes in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be ordered at any time. With the Memcached caching system, each script-driven website hosted on our servers will load unbelievably fast.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, since the data caching platform’s setup takes several clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension that it requires is pre-installed on our servers, so you can start using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your account. You’ll be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much info can be cached, in other words – there’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the amount of system memory. You can add more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very busy, for instance, you can always order more memory. Our system is exceptionally flexible in this regard and we do not bind a given number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can take advantage of Memcached to accelerate any script-driven website, including those based on widely used applications, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Any dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using this object caching system as soon as the server is configured, without the need to upgrade or install anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you have selected, but as our servers are unbelievably powerful and considering the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-requiring websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be 3 GB. This will enable you to increase the performance of extremely popular websites with ease and you will note the difference soon after the Memcached caching system begins caching database queries. You can use the Memcached system with any database-powered site, including those based on widely used Content Management Systems such as Joomla™ and WordPress.