Memcached is an object caching platform, which has been gaining popularity in recent years because of its effectiveness. It is used to cache requests and responses between a database and the application that’s using it, which can enhance the performance of your Internet site and reduce the generated server load tremendously. Every time a webpage on an application-driven Internet site is visited, the application connects to the database and "asks" what info should be shown, and then pulls it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, since the platform has already cached all the content that should be shown on a particular webpage. In case any data is edited, the Memcached content is updated too, so the website visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date data. Memcached is an ideal choice for every website that has lots of viewers, as it will make it open faster and will enhance the overall user experience.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

Memcached comes as an optional upgrade with each shared hosting plan offered by our company and in case you’d like to use it for any script-based site that you host on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to order it in a couple of simple steps through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll get the option to upgrade two different things – the instances and the system memory. The first one is related to the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached data caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several sites, you can order a handful of instances. The second one has to do with the total amount of memory that Memcached will be able to use in order to cache content, so for plenty of websites (or for one single large site), you may want to get more memory for improved performance. The memory comes in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be ordered at any moment. With the Memcached caching system, every script-powered site hosted on our cloud servers will open amazingly fast.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, as the distributed memory caching platform’s setup takes a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The extension that is required is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using the Memcached platform the moment you add it to your account. You’ll be able to select how many sites can use it and how much information it will cache, i.e. there’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your websites becomes extremely popular, for instance, you can always order more memory. Our system is pretty flexible in this regard and we do not tie a specific number of instances to a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can employ the Memcached platform to speed up any script-powered Internet site, including those that are based on widely used Internet apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS

Memcached is available by default with all Linux VPS packages that are ordered with our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension it requires to function properly is compiled when the VPS is configured, so you can begin using the caching platform the moment your new virtual server is completely ready. The memory that Memcached can employ depends on the particular VPS plan, but even with the less powerful ones, you will get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will allow you to accelerate the performance of numerous sites hosted on the server simultaneously and to lower the load even if you manage traffic-consuming script-based web portals with multiple viewers. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Joomla™ or Drupal™, or a custom one, and you will detect the faster performance shortly after you start using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Hosting

Memcached is available for free with all dedicated hosting offered by our company and the one and only requirement is that the dedicated machine must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the distributed memory object caching system for any database-driven site, including those based on famous software apps – for example, a WordPress personal diary or a Joomla™-driven social networking website. Each dedicated machine comes with a different amount of memory that the Memcached system can employ, but the minimum amount you will get is 3 GB, which is sufficient enough to enhance the loading speed of extremely popular sites enormously, since this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached information. The system will begin storing data once it is enabled, so shortly after that, you’ll observe the optimized performance of your Internet sites and the decreased load on your dedicated server. Numerous websites use the Memcached caching system to enhance their efficacy, among them popular ones such as Reddit and Wikipedia.