Memcached is a content caching platform, which is used to boost the loading speed of database-driven websites by caching the queries and the replies between the website visitor and the server. In simple terms, anytime a particular web page on such a website is requested, the script queries its database to fetch the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks on a link to go to a different web page, the entire process is performed again and this generates lots of database requests and excessive server load, even more so if the site has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer has to request any information from the database, as everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall loading speed of your site will increase and you will get more pleased visitors and they will be able to navigate through your site faster. Additionally, the Memcached platform updates its cache every time any info in the database is edited, so the users will never wind up seeing out-of-date content.

Memcached in Web Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached caching system with all web hosting offered by our company. It is offered as an upgrade, which you can activate with just a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia web 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 add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you wish 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, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more data will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for high-demand sites with large-sized databases and a lot of concurrent visitors. In this way, you can supercharge the performance of any script-powered site hosted on our cloud servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you’ll find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades part of your Hepsia Control Panel, so if you want to use it for any of the websites hosted in the semi-dedicated account, you can activate it with just a few clicks of the mouse. The platform is suitable for any script-based app like Joomla™, WordPress, or even a tailor-made one, and based on your needs, you will be able to select two separate things – how many Internet sites will use Memcached, i.e. the number of instances; and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will employ. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you’ve got a traffic-hungry site with lots of content, you can order one instance and a large amount of memory. The Memcached platform will improve the overall performance of your sites soon after you enable it and both you and your site visitors will enjoy faster load speeds.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Each dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the object caching system the moment your dedicated server is up and running, without having 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 exceptionally powerful and due to the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-requiring Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use is three gigabytes. This will permit you to enhance the performance of very large websites without effort and you will detect the difference shortly after the Memcached system starts caching database queries. You can make full use of the Memcached system with any database-driven online portal, including those based on popular CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.