Memcached is a content caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years thanks to its efficiency. It is used to cache calls and replies between a database and the app that is using it, which can accelerate the overall performance of your site and decrease the generated server load significantly. Every time a webpage on an app-powered website is opened, the app connects to the database and "asks" what information should be displayed, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these steps are omitted, since the platform has already cached the content that should be shown on a specific webpage. In case any content is modified, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the site visitors will never see out-of-date data. The Memcached platform is an ideal option for any site that draws a lot of visitors, as it will make it lightning-fast and will enhance the overall user experience.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached object caching system with all Linux shared hosting offered by us. It is offered as an optional upgrade, which you can activate with just a couple of mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more freedom depending on the websites that you would like to use it for. The first one concerns the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve got, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for traffic-heavy websites with large-sized databases and lots of concurrent visitors. In this way, you can enhance the speed of every script-driven website hosted on our servers with no effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached easily, since the data caching platform’s setup takes a few clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The PHP extension that is required is pre-installed on our servers, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to choose how many Internet sites can use it and how much content can be cached, in other words – there are two different features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very popular, for example, you can always get more memory. Our system is exceptionally flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a given number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can employ the Memcached caching platform to improve the loading speed of any script-driven site, including those based on widely used Internet applications, such as Joomla or WordPress.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached is offered by default with every VPS server that we are offering as long as you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel, so you won’t have to pay any extra money to be able to use the full capacity of this distributed memory object caching system. The more powerful VPS hosting plan you choose, the more system memory Memcached will have for data caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes at all times, which is much more than the amount of memory you would get with a shared package. This will permit you to use the Memcached system for multiple websites, no matter how popular they are, which in turn means that you can use a less powerful package for them without overloading your server. The Memcached caching system is excellent for script-driven apps such as WordPress, OpenCart, Joomla or Mambo, and you can use it even with a custom app. Soon after you enable the Memcached system, it will begin storing information and you will observe the optimized overall performance of your websites.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Memcached comes free of charge with all Linux dedicated servers that we offer and the sole condition is that the dedicated machine must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the data caching system for any database-powered Internet site, including those that are based on famous software apps – for example, a WordPress personal blog or a Joomla-powered social networking website. Each dedicated machine is tied to a different amount of system memory that the Memcached system can employ, but the minimum amount you’ll get is three gigabytes, which is quite enough to optimize the loading speed of extremely popular sites enormously, as this very memory will be dedicated to storing the cached info. The system will begin caching content as soon as it’s enabled, so soon thereafter, you will note the improved performance of your Internet sites and the lowered load. Plenty of Internet sites use the Memcached caching system to enhance their efficacy, among them popular ones such as Reddit and Wikipedia.