Memcached is a memory caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years because of its efficiency. It’s used to cache calls and responses between a database and the app that’s using it, which can boost the overall performance of your site and lessen the created server load greatly. Anytime a page on an app-powered site is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what information should be displayed, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these procedures are skipped, since the platform has already cached the content that should be displayed on a specific web page. In case any data is modified, the Memcached content is updated too, so the visitors will never see outdated data. Memcached is an excellent choice for any Internet site that draws plenty of visitors, since it will increase its speed and will enhance the overall user experience.
Memcached in Shared Web Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached object caching system with all shared web hosting offered by our company. It’s offered as an optional upgrade, which you can enable with just a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached as soon as you order it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more versatility depending on the sites that you would like to use it for. The first part shows the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can add more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have, the more data will be cached, which may be a quite good idea for high-demand websites with large databases and plenty of concurrent visitors. Thus, you can optimize the performance of any script-powered Internet site hosted on our servers without efforts.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can get the Memcached data caching system as an upgrade with each of our semi-dedicated servers and since it works with any script-based application, you can use it for each site that you host on our platform, regardless of what app you have used – Mambo, WordPress or Joomla™, a custom-created one, etc. You can request the upgrade via the respective section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated account, and you can choose two different features – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. In other words, these things indicate the number of the websites that will use the Memcached caching system and how much memory the system will be able to use to store your information. The two things are ordered separately for more flexibility and one instance does not come with a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can use Memcached with any sort of website and both you and your site visitors will swiftly distinguish the difference in the performance.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached is available as standard with all VPS servers that are ordered with our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it requires to work correctly is compiled when the virtual server is configured, so you can begin using the memory caching platform the moment your brand new VPS is completely ready. The system memory that Memcached can use depends on the particular VPS plan, but even with the less powerful plans, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will allow you to increase the overall performance of multiple sites hosted on the VPS server simultaneously and to reduce the load on the virtual machine even if you own resource-demanding script-powered web portals with numerous visitors. Memcached can be used with any script – Mambo, Drupal™ or Joomla™, or a custom-made script, and you will see the faster overall performance soon after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Memcached comes for free with all dedicated servers that we’re offering and the one and only condition is that the dedicated server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the distributed memory object caching system for any database-driven website, including those based on famous Internet apps – for example, a WordPress weblog or a Joomla™-powered community web portal. Each dedicated machine is tied to a different amount of system memory that the Memcached system can use, but the minimum amount you’ll get is 3 gigabytes, which is sufficient enough to optimize the load speed of very popular websites enormously, as this very memory will be dedicated to storing the cached content. The system will begin caching info once it is activated, so shortly after that, you’ll note the enhanced performance of your sites and the decreased server load. A lot of websites use Memcached to improve their effectiveness, among them famous ones such as Wikipedia and Reddit.