Memcached is an object caching platform, which is used to accelerate the load speed of database-driven websites by caching the queries and the replies between the visitor and the server. To put it in simple terms, anytime a certain page on such a website is accessed, the script queries its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the website visitor. If the latter clicks on a link to go to another web page, the entire process is performed again and this results in multiple database calls and excessive load on the server, especially if the site has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer needs to fetch any info from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your site will increase and you will enjoy more satisfied visitors and they will be able to surf through your site faster. Furthermore, the Memcached platform updates its cache whenever any info in the database is changed, so the site users will never see old content.

Memcached in Shared Website Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached caching system with all shared website hosting offered by us. It is offered as an optional upgrade, which you can obtain with just a few mouse clicks via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system the moment you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more flexibility depending on the websites that you want to use it for. The first one defines the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, while 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 ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a quite good idea for regularly visited websites with very large databases and numerous users. In this way, you can optimize the performance of every script-driven website hosted on our cloud servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, since the platform’s setup requires a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The required extension is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using the Memcached platform as soon as you add it to your account. You will be able to choose how many sites can use it and how much information it will cache, in other words – there are two separate upgradable features – the instances and the amount of system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very busy, for example, you can always order more memory. Our system is stunningly flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can use the Memcached platform to increase the speed of any script-powered website, including those that are based on popular web apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Servers

You’ll get Memcached with any of the VPS server plans that we’re offering in case you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the platform via the section with the very same name. The configuration requires several mouse clicks and you’ll see the difference in the performance of your websites almost immediately. The amount of memory that the Memcached platform can employ to cache info depends on the particular VPS hosting plan that you’ve chosen, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred MB, which is more than enough even for several resource-heavy Internet sites. You can use the Memcached platform with websites powered by Joomla™, WordPress or any other Internet application and lower the load on your server, which will enable you to continue using the current plan instead of moving to a more powerful one, since you simply won’t need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by popular websites such as Reddit, Wikipedia and Zynga, which is a proof of its effectiveness.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you obtain any of our dedicated service and if you choose Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the signup procedure, you’ll get the Memcached caching platform as standard and you can enable it for each Internet site that you host on your dedicated machine without installing or upgrading anything. It will start storing information as users open your website, so you’ll notice the results of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the platform is three gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the dedicate server plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for a large number of Internet sites or for an extremely heavy site without weakening its efficacy. Memcached will enable you to accelerate the speed of any database-driven site very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online diary, an OpenCart store, etc., and to optimize the performance of your server.