Memcached is a popular distributed memory object caching system, which can improve the speed and the performance of your websites considerably in case they use an API or a database. This is achieved by caching the calls to the database/API and the replies that are delivered, so if someone conducts a search for a specific product on your site, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the entire task will be performed notably faster. This is valid for all types of database-powered applications and not only for online shops, as anytime a particular web page is visited, the app sends a query to its database to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website load noticeably faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any data in the database is edited, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users won’t see any out-of-date info.

Memcached in Hosting

When you host script-driven sites in a hosting account with us, you will be able to add Memcached to your shared hosting package with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantaneously and, since the PHP extension needed for it is pre-installed on our innovative cloud hosting platform, you can start using it straight away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many sites will use Memcached) and to the amount of system memory that Memcached will use. The latter is offered in increments of 16 MB and you can add memory as many times as you want. Logically, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more data it will cache, so in case you own a popular website with a lot of data, you may need more memory to be able to make the most of the power that Memcached can give you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can get the Memcached memory caching system as an upgrade with all our semi-dedicated hosting plans and since it works with any script-driven application, you can use it for every Internet site that you host on our platform, irrespective of what app you have used – Mambo, WordPress or Joomla™, a custom-created application, etc. You can order the upgrade via the respective section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated account, and you can select two different features – the instances and the amount of system memory that they will use. In simple terms, these things determine the number of the websites that will use the Memcached caching system and the amount of memory that the system will be able to use in order to cache your data. The two things are ordered separately for more freedom and one instance does not come with a fixed amount of system memory. You can make full use of the Memcached system with any sort of website and both you and your visitors will quickly distinguish the difference in the overall performance.

Memcached in VPS Servers

You’ll get Memcached with each of the VPS server plans offered by our company if you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the memory caching platform via the section with the same name. The setup requires a few mouse clicks and you will detect the difference in the performance of your websites almost instantly. The amount of memory that the Memcached platform can employ to store info depends on the given VPS hosting package that you’ve picked, but in any case it will not be less than several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for multiple large-size sites. You can use Memcached with websites driven by WordPress, Joomla™ or any other web-based application and decrease the load on your virtual server, which will allow you to continue using the current Virtual Private Server hosting plan instead of migrating to a more powerful one, as you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites like Reddit, Zynga and Wikipedia, which demonstrates its effectiveness.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

When you order one of our dedicated web hosting plans and if you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel on the order form, you will get the Memcached platform by default and you can enable it for each website that you host on the dedicated server without upgrading or installing anything. It will start caching information as users visit your site, so you’ll see the results of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the Memcached platform is three gigabytes and normally, the more powerful the dedicate server plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to take advantage of the platform for a lot of websites or for an extremely popular Internet site without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached caching platform will enable you to accelerate the loading speed of any database-driven website in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online diary, an OpenCart store, etcetera, and to boost the performance of your dedicated server.