Memcached is a famous distributed memory caching platform, which can boost the loading speed and the performance of your Internet sites greatly in case they use an API or a database. This is accomplished by caching the requests to the database/API and the responses that are delivered, so when someone searches for a given product on your website, for example, the database will not have to be accessed to display the results and the whole task will be executed noticeably quicker. This goes for all sorts of database-powered applications and not only for online shopping portals, as every time a specific page is visited, the application connects to its database to get the data that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site open much faster, but it will also produce much less load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the users will not see any outdated information.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

If you host script-powered websites in a cloud hosting account with us, you can add the Memcached object caching system to your web hosting package with just a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantly and, since the required PHP extension is pre-installed on our advanced cloud hosting platform, you can begin 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 websites will use Memcached) and to the memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 MB and you can add memory as many times as you like. Logically, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more content it will cache, so in case you have a resource-hungry site with lots of data, you may need more memory so as to be able to make the most of the power that Memcached can offer you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached easily, as the data caching platform’s setup requires a few clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The required PHP extension is pre-installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can start using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to choose how many websites can use it and how much information it will cache, i.e. there are two different upgradable features – the number of instances and the amount of memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely busy, for instance, you can always get more memory. Our system is unbelievably flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a given number of instances to a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can take advantage of Memcached to increase the loading speed of any script-driven Internet site, including those that are based on popular software applications, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Servers

When you acquire a VPS server from us, you will be able to use Memcached at no extra price, as the caching platform is offered with all servers that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have resource-heavy Internet sites, you can improve their performance without effort and the lowered load on your VPS will permit you to continue using your current VPS hosting package instead of migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to store information depends on the package that you’re using, but even with a low-end one, you will have at least several hundred megabytes, which is significantly more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting package, so the website performance boost will be noticeable. You can use the Memcached platform with any database-powered application, irrespective of whether you’ve written it yourself or you are using a ready-made one like Joomla™, OpenCart or WordPress.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using this distributed memory object caching system as soon as the dedicated server is assembled, without needing to install or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the dedicated server that you have selected, but since our servers are very powerful and given the fact that it is likely that you will host resource-requiring sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is three gigabytes. This will enable you to boost the overall performance of very large sites effortlessly and you will note the difference soon after Memcached begins caching database requests. You can make full use of the caching system with any database-driven website, including those based on famous Content Management Systems such as Joomla™ and WordPress.