Memcached is a memory caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years owing to its effectiveness. It’s used to cache requests and responses between a database and the application that is using it, which can enhance the overall performance of your site and reduce the produced server load drastically. Every time a webpage on an application-driven Internet site is accessed, the app connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then pulls it. With Memcached, these steps are omitted, as the platform has already cached the content that should show up on a particular page. When any data is modified, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date data. Memcached is an ideal choice for any Internet site that attracts numerous visitors, as it will increase its loading speed and will improve the user experience.

Memcached in Website Hosting

The Memcached memory caching system comes as an optional upgrade with each Linux website hosting package offered by our company and you will be able to start using it once you enable it, since the PHP extension that it requires in order to function properly is pre-installed on our avant-garde cloud platform. You can order the upgrade from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with every shared hosting package and a brand-new Control Panel section where you can manage Memcached will appear. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts – the number of instances and the memory, so as to offer you more flexibility. The first one shows the number of the sites that can use Memcached, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 16 MB, specifies the maximum size of the content that can be cached by the system. A heavy-traffic Internet site with a very large database may need more memory in order to take an even greater advantage of Memcached, so if you would like to upgrade this service, you will be able to do it at any given time with a few mouse clicks.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you order any of our semi-dedicated server plans, you’ll find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades section of your Hepsia Control Panel, so if you wish to use it for any of the websites hosted in the semi-dedicated account, you can enable it with just a couple of mouse clicks. The distributed memory object caching platform is suitable for any script-driven software app like Joomla™, WordPress, or even a custom-made app, and based on your demands, you’ll be able to choose two separate features – how many websites will use the Memcached platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will employ. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you have a traffic-consuming website with lots of data, you can order one instance and a large amount of system memory. The Memcached caching platform will optimize the overall performance of your websites shortly after you enable it and both you and your visitors will enjoy much faster loading times.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

Memcached comes as standard with all Linux VPS hosting that are ordered with our custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it requires so as to function correctly is compiled when the virtual server is set up, so you can begin using the caching platform as soon as your brand-new server is completely operational. The system memory that the Memcached caching platform can employ depends on the particular VPS plan, but even with the less powerful ones, several hundred megabytes will be at your disposal exclusively for this platform. This will permit you to improve the overall performance of multiple sites hosted on the virtual server at the same time and to decrease the load on the virtual machine even if you manage heavy script-powered sites with a lot of visitors. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Drupal™, Joomla™ or Mambo, or a custom one, and you will observe the better performance shortly after you start using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you acquire any of our dedicated web hosting and if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel at signup, you will get the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform by default and you can set it up for any site that you host on the dedicated server without upgrading or installing anything. It will start caching content as users access your site, so you’ll see the effect of using it shortly after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is three gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to use the caching platform for a large number of Internet sites or for a very popular website without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached platform will enable you to increase the load speed of any database-driven Internet site very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress blog, an OpenCart web store, etcetera, and to boost the performance of your server.