Memcached is a caching system, which is used to supercharge the loading speed of database-powered websites by caching the calls and the responses between the website visitor and the server. In other words, every time a particular web page on such a site is accessed, the script queries its database to request the information that should be shown to the website visitor. If the latter clicks on a hyperlink to go to a different web page, the entire operation is repeated and this generates a lot of database calls and high server load, particularly if the site has lots of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these pages is requested again, the script no longer has to extract any info from the database, since everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will "soar" and you will have more pleased visitors and they will be able to browse your website 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updates its cache every time any information in the database is changed, so the site users will never wind up seeing outdated data.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

You can take advantage of the Memcached caching system with all cloud hosting that we’re offering. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can enable with only a couple of mouse clicks through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system as soon as you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you want to use it for. The first part determines the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a really good idea for heavy-traffic sites with large databases and numerous simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can boost the overall performance of every script-based site hosted on our cloud servers with ease.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can get the Memcached data caching system as an upgrade with each of our semi-dedicated servers and since it works with any script-based app, you can use it for every website that you host on our platform, regardless of what application you have used – Mambo, Joomla™ or WordPress, a custom-developed app, etc. You can order the upgrade from the corresponding section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two different things – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. In simple terms, these things show how many websites will use the Memcached system and the amount of memory that the system will be able to use to cache your information. The two features are offered separately for more freedom and one instance does not come bundled with a pre-defined amount of memory. You can make the most of Memcached with any sort of site and both you and the visitors will swiftly detect the difference in the overall performance.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached is available by default with all VPS servers that are ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it needs in order to function correctly is compiled when the Virtual Private Server is configured, so you can start using the data caching platform once your brand new virtual server is completely functional. The system memory that the Memcached platform can use depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the less powerful ones, several hundred megabytes will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will permit you to increase the performance of multiple websites hosted on the VPS simultaneously and to decrease the load even if you run resource-demanding script-based web portals with a lot of visitors. Memcached can be used with any script – Joomla™, Drupal™ or Mambo, or a custom-built script, and you will detect the faster performance soon after you begin using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can start using this caching system the moment your server is fully ready, without the need to activate or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you’ve selected, but as our servers are astonishingly powerful and due to the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-requiring websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is 3 gigabytes. This will allow you to enhance the overall performance of extremely large websites without effort and you’ll note the difference shortly after Memcached starts caching database queries. You can make full use of the caching system with any database-driven website, including those that are based on widely used CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.