Memcached is a widespread content caching platform, which can enhance the speed and the overall performance of your sites significantly if they use an API or a database. This is accomplished by caching the calls to the database/API and the replies that are delivered, so when a user conducts a search for a particular product on your website, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to display the results and the whole task will be performed much quicker. That goes for all kinds of database-driven applications and not only for e-commerce portals, as anytime a particular web page is visited, the application sends a database request to fetch the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your site load noticeably faster, but it will also generate much less server load. If any data in the database is changed, the cached replies will also be ‘refreshed’, so the users will not see any old information.

Memcached in Shared Website Hosting

If you host script-powered websites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you can add the Memcached memory caching system to your web hosting package with only a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the necessary PHP extension is pre-installed on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, you can start using it straight away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many websites will use Memcached) and to the amount of memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter is available in increments of 16 MB and you can add memory whenever you like. Naturally, the more memory the Memcached caching system is permitted to use, the more content it will cache, so in case you have a larger 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 Servers

You can get the Memcached distributed memory object caching system as an upgrade with each of our semi-dedicated hosting plans and since it works with any script-driven software application, you can use it for every Internet site that you host on our servers, irrespective of what application you have used – Joomla™, WordPress or Mambo, a custom-created application, etc. You can request the upgrade through the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated account, and you can choose two separate features – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. In other words, these things show the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system and the maximum amount of memory that the system will be able to use to cache your content. The two features are ordered separately for more freedom and one instance does not come with a fixed amount of memory. You can take advantage of Memcached with any type of website and both you and your site visitors will quickly spot the difference in the performance.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached is included by default with each and every VPS server that we’re offering if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel, so you won’t have to pay anything extra to be able to make the most of the maximum capacity of this distributed memory caching system. The more powerful plan you choose, the more memory Memcached will have for data storage purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes all the time, which is much more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared hosting plan. This will allow you to use Memcached for multiple sites, no matter how popular they are, which in turn means that you can use a lower-end plan for them without overloading your server. The Memcached caching system is ideal for script-powered web apps like OpenCart, Joomla™, WordPress or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom-created app. Shortly after you enable Memcached, it will begin storing content and you’ll notice the improved overall performance of your sites.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Memcached is available for free with all dedicated web hosting plans that we offer and the one and only requirement is that the dedicated server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the object caching system for any database-driven website, including those based on popular applications – for instance, a WordPress online diary or a Joomla™-powered social networking site. Each dedicated server comes with a particular amount of memory that the Memcached system can employ, but the minimum amount you’ll get is 3 gigabytes, which is sufficient enough to accelerate very large websites considerably, since this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached content. The system will begin storing content as soon as it is enabled, so soon thereafter, you’ll distinguish the optimized performance of your Internet sites and the lowered load on the dedicated machine. Plenty of sites use the Memcached system to improve their efficiency, including famous ones such as Reddit and Wikipedia.