Memcached is a content caching system, which is used to supercharge the overall performance of database-powered sites by caching the requests and the replies between the user and the server. Simply put, anytime a particular web page on such a site is opened, the script sends a database query to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks on a hyperlink to visit some other web page, the whole procedure is repeated and this leads to a lot of database queries and higher load on the server, especially if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so if any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer has to fetch any info from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your website will increase and you will enjoy more satisfied visitors and they will be able to surf through your site much faster. Furthermore, the Memcached platform updates its cache every time any content in the database is edited, so the visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date content.
Memcached in Shared Website Hosting
When you host script-powered sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add the Memcached object caching system to your shared web hosting plan with only a couple of clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantly and, since the needed extension is pre-installed on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform, you can start using it right away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many Internet sites will use Memcached) and to the memory that Memcached will use. The latter is available in increments of 16 MB and you can order as much memory as you need. Logically, the more memory the Memcached caching system is allowed to use, the more data it will cache, so if you own a busy site with a lot of data, you may require more memory in order to be able to make full use of the power that Memcached can give you.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You can add Memcached to any of the semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and use its full capacity for any script-driven website hosted on our servers. The upgrade is accessible through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can choose two things – the instances and the amount of memory. These things define the number of the sites that can use the Memcached caching platform and how much system memory it will use to cache your info. You can choose them independently, since a given instance is not tied to a fixed amount of system memory, so you can use a lot of memory for a single large-sized Internet site, for instance. This upgrade comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order as much memory as you wish. The Memcached platform can be used with any script-driven website regardless of its nature, including those based on widely used software apps like WordPress, Drupal™ or Joomla™, and many companies such as Wikipedia and Zynga are already using it to improve the speed of their sites.
Memcached in VPS Web Hosting
Memcached is available by default with all VPS web hosting ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it requires so as to perform properly is compiled when the virtual server is configured, so you can begin using the caching platform the moment your brand new virtual server is completely operational. The system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal exclusively for this platform. This will allow you to increase the performance of numerous sites hosted on the Virtual Private Server simultaneously and to reduce the load on the virtual machine even if you’ve got content-heavy script-driven web portals with many visitors. The platform can be used with any script – Joomla™, Drupal™ or Mambo, or a custom-developed script, and you will see the better overall performance soon after you begin using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers Hosting
If you purchase one of our Linux dedicated servers hosting packages and if you choose Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel at signup, you will get the Memcached data caching platform as standard and you can use it with any site that you host on your server without upgrading or installing anything. It will start storing content as users visit your website, so you will notice the results of using it soon after that. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 GB and normally, the more powerful the dedicate server package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for a lot of websites or for a very large website without compromising its efficacy. Memcached will permit you to increase the speed of any database-driven website very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal weblog, an OpenCart e-shop, etcetera, and to optimize the overall performance of your dedicated server.