Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which is used to accelerate the overall performance of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. In simple terms, every time a certain page on such a site is visited, the script queries its database to request the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to visit another web page, the entire procedure is repeated and this leads to plenty of database requests and excessive load on the server, especially if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is visited again, the script no longer has to extract any information from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. Thus, the overall loading speed of your site will "soar" and you will get more satisfied visitors and they will be able to browse your website much faster. At the same time, the Memcached platform updates its cache every time any information in the database is changed, so the site users will never end up seeing out-of-date data.

Memcached in Web Hosting

You can take advantage of the Memcached object caching system with all Linux web hosting that we are offering. It is offered as an upgrade, which you can enable with just a couple of mouse clicks via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system once you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one 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 memory, in other words – to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for high-traffic sites with large-size databases and a lot of simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can increase the overall performance of any script-powered site hosted on our servers effortlessly.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can get the Memcached distributed memory caching system as an upgrade with all our Linux semi-dedicated hosting and since it works with any script-driven software app, you can use it for every site that you host on our servers, regardless of what application you have used – Joomla™, WordPress or Mambo, a custom-developed one, etc. You can request the upgrade via the respective section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated account, and you can select two separate things – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. Basically, these things specify the number of the websites that will use Memcached and how much system memory the system will be able to use in order to store your information. The two features are offered independently for more freedom and one instance does not come with a particular amount of system memory. You can take advantage of the Memcached system with any type of site and both you and your visitors will quickly note the difference in the overall performance.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

You will get Memcached with each of the virtual private server packages that we are offering in case you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you will be able to activate the caching platform through the section with the very same name. The configuration takes a few clicks of the mouse and you’ll notice the difference in the overall performance of your Internet sites almost immediately. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ to store information depends on the given VPS plan that you’ve selected, but at any rate it won’t be less than several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for several resource-hungry websites. You can use the Memcached platform with Internet sites powered by Joomla™, WordPress or any other web-based app and reduce the load on your VPS server, which will enable you to keep using the current VPS hosting plan rather than upgrading to a more powerful one, since you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by popular websites like Zynga, Reddit and Wikipedia, which verifies its efficacy.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Any dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the data caching system as soon as your dedicated server is configured, without having to upgrade or install anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can employ depends on the very server that you have selected, but since our servers are extremely powerful and given the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-heavy sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 gigabytes. This will permit you to enhance the performance of very popular Internet sites without any effort and you will distinguish the difference shortly after Memcached begins caching database requests. You can make the most of the Memcached system with any database-powered portal, including those that are based on widely used Content Management Systems like WordPress and Joomla™.