Memcached is an object caching platform, which is used to supercharge the overall performance of database-powered Internet sites by caching the requests and the responses between the user and the server. To put it simply, every time a particular page on such a website is opened, the script calls its database to fetch the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to go to some other web page, the entire process is performed again and this leads to multiple database requests and higher load on the server, especially if the website has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to extract any content from the database, since everything is provided by the caching platform. Thus, the overall speed of your website will increase and you will enjoy more gratified visitors and they will be able to surf through your site faster. Additionally, Memcached updates its cache if any content in the database is altered, so the site visitors will never wind up seeing old content.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached object caching system with all cloud hosting packages offered by our company. It’s offered as an optional upgrade, which you can order with just a few clicks of the mouse via your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system as soon as you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you wish to use it for. The first part defines the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve added, the more data will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for heavy-traffic sites with large-size databases and numerous users. Thus, you can supercharge the loading speed of every script-powered Internet site hosted on our servers without any efforts.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached with ease, as the distributed memory object caching platform’s setup requires a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension that it requires is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much content it will cache, in other words – there’re two separate upgradable features – the number of instances and the system memory. You can add more of both, so if one of your websites becomes very popular, for instance, you can always order more memory. Our system is truly flexible in this regard and we do not tie a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform to increase the loading speed of any script-driven Internet site, including those that are based on widely used software apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

Memcached comes by default with each virtual private server that we’re offering if you select Hepsia as your Control Panel, so you won’t need to pay any extra money to be able to make the most of the full capacity of this content caching system. The more powerful Virtual Private Server hosting plan you pick, the more system memory Memcached will have for data storage purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred megabytes all the time, which is much more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting package. This will permit you to use Memcached for a lot of websites, regardless of how large they are, which in turn means that you can use a lower-end package for them without overloading your server. The Memcached caching system is excellent for script-based apps like OpenCart, WordPress, Joomla™ or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom-made app. Soon after you activate the Memcached caching system, it will start storing data and you’ll distinguish the enhanced overall performance of your sites.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using the distributed memory object caching system as soon as your server is assembled, without having to install or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the very server that you’ve chosen, but as our servers are astonishingly powerful and given the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-hungry websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 GB. This will allow you to increase the overall performance of extremely large sites without effort and you will notice the difference shortly after Memcached starts caching database requests. You can use the system with any database-powered portal, including those that are based on widely used CMSs such as WordPress and Joomla™.