Memcached is a content caching system, which is used to supercharge the speed of database-driven websites by caching the calls and the replies between the user and the server. In other words, anytime a certain web page on such a website is requested, the script calls its database to fetch the info that should be shown to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a hyperlink to visit a different web page, the whole operation is executed again and this leads to plenty of database requests and high load on the server, even more so if the website has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to request any info from the database, as everything is delivered by the caching platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will increase and you’ll get more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your site much faster. In addition, Memcached "refreshes" its cache whenever any data in the database is updated, so the website visitors will never see out-of-date data.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached caching system with all shared hosting service offered by us. It’s available as an upgrade, which you can obtain with only a couple of mouse clicks from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system once you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more versatility depending on the websites that you wish to use it for. The first part concerns the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can order more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve added, the more content will be cached, which may be a really good idea for traffic-heavy websites with large databases and lots of users. In this way, you can accelerate the loading speed of every script-powered Internet site hosted on our cloud servers effortlessly.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can add the Memcached distributed memory caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated servers that we’re offering and use its full capacity for any script-powered Internet site hosted on our servers. The upgrade is available through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can choose two things – the number of instances and the memory. These things specify how many websites can use Memcached and the amount of memory that it will use to cache your information. You can select them separately, since one instance is not tied to a specific amount of system memory, so you can use plenty of memory for one resource-heavy website, for example. This feature is available in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order as much memory as you need. The platform can be used with any script-powered website irrespective of its nature, including those that are based on widespread web apps like Drupal™, Joomla™ or WordPress, and plenty of companies like Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to boost the performance of their websites.
Memcached in VPS Servers
If you get a VPS server from us, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no extra cost, as the content caching platform is available with all VPSs ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. Even if you manage resource-intensive websites, you’ll be able to improve their performance with ease and the lowered load on the virtual server will allow you to keep your current package instead of migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached platform can use to store information depends on the package that you are using, but even with a lower-end one, you will have at least several hundred megabytes, which is considerably more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared plan, so the website performance boost will be significant. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform with any database-powered app, regardless of whether you have developed it on your own or you’re using a ready-made one such as OpenCart, Joomla™ or WordPress.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
If you purchase one of our Linux dedicated servers and if you pick Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the order process, you will get the Memcached platform as standard and you can set it up for any site that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing data as users visit your Internet site, so you’ll notice the results of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the Memcached caching platform is three gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the dedicate server plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to use the caching platform for a lot of Internet sites or for a very busy Internet site without weakening its efficacy. The Memcached platform will enable you to optimize the load speed of any database-powered website very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal journal, an OpenCart web store, etc., and to optimize the overall performance of your dedicated server.