Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which is used to boost the speed of database-driven websites by caching the calls and the replies between the user and the server. In other words, anytime a given web page on such a website is requested, the script sends a database query to get the info that should be displayed to the visitor. In case the latter clicks on a hyperlink to open another web page, the whole procedure is performed again and this generates a lot of database queries and higher load on the server, even more so if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so if any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to request any content from the database, as everything is delivered by the caching platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your site will "soar" and you will enjoy more gratified visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your website faster. Plus, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache when any information in the database is edited, so the site users will never wind up seeing out-of-date data.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached caching system with all Linux shared plans that we are offering. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can get with just a few clicks of the mouse from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will offer you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one defines the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a quite good idea for high-demand websites with large-size databases and lots of visitors. In this way, you can improve the loading speed of every script-based site hosted on our cloud servers effortlessly.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to take advantage of Memcached with ease, as the object caching platform’s setup requires several mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The required extension is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can start using the Memcached platform the moment you add it to your account. You will be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much data it will cache, in other words – there’re two different upgradable features – the instances and the amount of system memory. You can add more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely popular, for example, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is unbelievably flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a particular number of instances to a fixed amount of memory. You can use the Memcached caching platform to accelerate any script-powered Internet site, including those that are based on widely used web-based apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached is offered by default with each VPS server that we are offering as long as you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel, so you will not have to pay anything extra to be able to take advantage of the potential of this distributed memory object caching system. The more powerful package you select, the more memory Memcached will have for data caching purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred MB all the time, which is much more than what you would get with a shared web hosting plan. This will enable you to use the Memcached system for numerous Internet sites, no matter how popular they are, which in turn means that you can use a lower-end package for them without overloading your server. The caching system is excellent for script-powered web applications such as Joomla™, OpenCart, WordPress or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom app. Shortly after you enable Memcached, it will start caching data and you’ll distinguish the improved overall performance of your sites.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
If you obtain any of our Linux dedicated web hosting plans and if you pick Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel at signup, you’ll get the Memcached object caching platform as standard and you can activate it for each site that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start caching data as users access your Internet site, so you’ll detect the effects of using it soon after that. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the platform is three gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the dedicate server package, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for multiple websites or for a very popular site without weakening its efficiency. Memcached will enable you to optimize the loading speed of any database-powered site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal diary, an OpenCart web store, etcetera, and to boost the overall performance of your server.