Memcached is a data caching platform, which is used to enhance the speed of database-powered sites by caching the requests and the replies between the user and the server. Put simply, anytime a particular web page on such a website is opened, the script connects to its database to request the info that should be displayed to the visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to visit another web page, the whole process is executed again and this results in lots of database queries and high server load, especially if the site has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so if any of these web pages is opened again, the script no longer has to call any data from the database, since everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall speed of your website will "soar" and you’ll enjoy more gratified visitors and they will be able to surf through your website much faster. Moreover, the Memcached platform updates its cache whenever any information in the database is changed, so the website users will never end up seeing old content.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

The Memcached memory caching system is offered as an upgrade with each and every shared plan that we offer and you can begin using it once you order it, since the extension that it requires so as to run properly is pre-installed on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform. You can order the upgrade through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes bundled with every hosting package and a brand new Control Panel section where you can manage Memcached will show up. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts – the number of instances and the system memory, so as to offer you more freedom. The first one refers to the number of the sites that can use the Memcached caching system, while the second, which comes in increments of 16 MB, specifies the total size of the content that can be cached by the system. A regularly visited Internet site with a large-sized database may need more memory to take an even bigger advantage of Memcached, so if you wish to upgrade this feature, you’ll be able to do it at any given point with a few clicks of the mouse.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can add Memcached to any of the semi-dedicated plans offered by our company and make use of its full potential for any script-driven Internet site hosted on our servers. The upgrade is offered through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can choose two features – the instances and the amount of system memory. These things show how many sites can use Memcached and how much system memory it will use to cache your content. You can select them independently, since a given instance is not linked to a particular amount of memory, so you can use lots of memory for a single large-scale Internet site, for instance. This feature comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can get as much memory as you need. The platform can be used with any script-driven website regardless of its type, including those that are based on popular web-based applications like Joomla™, Drupal™ or WordPress, and plenty of companies such as Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to improve the performance of their sites.

Memcached in VPS Servers

If you order a VPS server from us, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no extra price, as the object caching platform is available with all servers that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you run traffic-hungry Internet sites, you can optimize their performance effortlessly and the lowered load on the virtual machine will enable you to keep your current VPS hosting package rather than switching to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache info depends on the plan that you are using, but even with a low-end one, you’ll get at least several hundred MB, which is significantly more than what you’d get with a shared web hosting package, so the website performance boost will be serious. You can take advantage of Memcached with any database-driven application, no matter if you have written it yourself or you are using a ready-for-use one like WordPress, OpenCart or Joomla™.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you purchase any of our dedicated web hosting plans and if you select Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel on the order page, you will get the Memcached distributed memory caching platform as standard and you can enable it for each website that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing information as users visit your website, so you will detect the result of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 gigabytes and normally, the more powerful the package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to take advantage of the platform for a lot of Internet sites or for a very popular Internet site without weakening its efficiency. The Memcached platform will permit you to optimize the load speed of any database-powered Internet site very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online journal, an OpenCart web shop, etcetera, and to enhance the performance of your server.