Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which has been gaining popularity lately owing to its effectiveness. It is used to cache calls and responses between a database and the application that’s using it, which can accelerate the performance of your Internet site and reduce the generated load tremendously. Anytime a web page on an app-driven website is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then extracts it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, as the platform has already cached the content that should show up on a particular web page. When any content is updated, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the visitors will never end up seeing old content. The platform is a perfect solution for any site that lures lots of visitors, as it will make it open much faster and will improve the overall user experience.

Memcached in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use the Memcached caching system with all cloud website hosting offered by our company. It is offered as an optional upgrade, which you can add with just a few mouse clicks via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached the moment you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you want to use it for. The first one determines the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the system memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve got, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for frequently visited sites with large-sized databases and a lot of users. In this way, you can enhance the loading speed of any script-based Internet site hosted on our cloud servers without effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can get the Memcached data caching system as an upgrade with all our semi-dedicated servers and since it works with any script-powered web application, you can use it for every Internet site that you host on our platform, regardless of what app you have used – WordPress, Mambo or Joomla™, a custom app, etc. You can request the upgrade through the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two separate things – the instances and the amount of system memory that they will use. In simple terms, these things show how many sites will use Memcached and the amount of memory that the system will be able to use to store your content. The two features are offered independently for more freedom and one instance does not come bundled with a particular amount of system memory. You can make the most of Memcached with any kind of website and both you and the visitors will swiftly detect the difference in the performance.

Memcached in VPS Servers

You’ll get Memcached with each of the VPS server plans offered by us if you select Hepsia as your Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the content caching platform through the Control Panel section with the very same name. The setup takes several clicks of the mouse and you’ll notice the difference in the overall performance of your websites almost immediately. The amount of system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to store content depends on the particular Virtual Private Server plan that you’ve chosen, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several content-heavy websites. You can use Memcached with sites driven by Joomla™, WordPress or any other web-based application and reduce the load on your virtual server, which will permit you to keep using the current VPS plan rather than switching to a more powerful one, as you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Zynga, which is a proof of its efficacy.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the data caching system the moment your dedicated server is fully ready, without the need to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you’ve selected, but as our servers are amazingly powerful and considering the fact that it is likely that you will host resource-requiring sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 GB. This will allow you to improve the performance of very heavy sites without effort and you will observe the difference soon after Memcached starts caching database requests. You can take full advantage of the system with any database-driven online portal, including those based on famous CMSs such as WordPress and Joomla™.