Memcached is a content caching system, which is used to supercharge the performance of database-driven Internet sites by caching the queries and the replies between the user and the server. To put it differently, every time a given page on such a website is accessed, the script sends a query to its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. If the latter clicks a hyperlink to open a different page, the whole operation is executed again and this generates a lot of database requests and higher server load, even more so if the site has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to call any content from the database, as everything is provided by the Memcached platform. Thus, the overall speed of your site will "soar" and you’ll enjoy more happy visitors and they will be able to browse your site much faster. Plus, Memcached updates its cache when any information in the database is changed, so the website users will never end up seeing outdated content.
Memcached in Shared Website Hosting
If you host script-powered websites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add the Memcached content caching system to your shared web hosting plan with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the extension required for it is already installed on our innovative cloud hosting platform, you can start using it right away. To give you more versatility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many sites will use Memcached) and to the system memory that Memcached will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 MB and you can order as much memory as you wish. Logically, the more memory Memcached is allowed to use, the more data it will cache, so in case you’ve got a large-sized website with a lot of data, you may require more memory in order to be able to take advantage of the power that Memcached can offer you.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You can get the Memcached content caching system as an upgrade with each of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting and since it works with any script-powered web app, you can use it for any site that you host on our servers, irrespective of what app you have used – Joomla™, WordPress or Mambo, a custom application, etc. You can request the upgrade from the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated account, and you can choose two different things – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. To put it simply, these things indicate how many sites will use the Memcached caching system and how much memory the system will be able to use to cache your information. The two things are ordered independently for more flexibility and one instance does not come bundled with a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can take advantage of Memcached with any sort of website and both you and the visitors will swiftly perceive the difference in the overall performance.
Memcached in VPS Web Hosting
You’ll get Memcached with each of the virtual private server plans that we’re offering in case you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the content caching platform via the section with the very same name. The setup takes several clicks of the mouse and you’ll distinguish the difference in the overall performance of your sites almost immediately. The amount of memory that Memcached can take advantage of to cache content depends on the particular VPS hosting plan that you’ve chosen, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred megabytes, which is more than enough even for several intense-traffic websites. You can use Memcached with websites powered by Joomla™, WordPress or any other web application and reduce the load on your VPS, which will enable you to keep using the current VPS plan rather than switching to a more powerful one, as you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by popular websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Zynga, which confirms its efficiency.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers Hosting
Each dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using the caching system the moment the server is set up, without the need to activate or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you’ve picked, but as our servers are truly powerful and given the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-consuming websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be three gigabytes. This will allow you to enhance the overall performance of extremely heavy websites effortlessly and you’ll detect the difference shortly after the Memcached caching system begins caching database queries. You can use the Memcached caching system with any database-driven portal, including those that are based on widely used CMSs such as WordPress and Joomla™.