Memcached is a widespread distributed memory object caching platform, which can enhance the loading speed and the overall performance of your Internet sites immensely if they use a database or an API. This is accomplished by caching the calls to the database/API and the responses that are returned, so when a client searches for a certain product on your Internet site, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the entire task will be completed notably quicker. This is valid for all types of database-powered apps and not only for online shops, since anytime a specific web page is visited, the app sends a request to its database to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website open significantly faster, but it will also produce much less load. If any content in the database is updated, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the site visitors will not see any outdated information.
Memcached in Shared Web Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached distributed memory caching system with all Linux shared web hosting service offered by us. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can order with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system the moment you order it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the websites that you’d like to use it for. The first one defines the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the system memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more data will be cached, which may be a good idea for traffic-heavy websites with large databases and plenty of concurrent visitors. In this way, you can accelerate the speed of any script-powered Internet site hosted on our servers without any effort.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you wish to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in the account, you can enable it with just a few clicks of the mouse. The distributed memory caching platform is perfect for any script-based app like Joomla™, WordPress, or even an in-house built application, and depending on your demands, you will be able to choose two different things – how many websites will use the Memcached platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much content will be stored, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will use. The two things are not tied to each other, so if you’ve got a busy site with lots of content, you can get one instance and a larger amount of system memory. The Memcached caching platform will accelerate the performance of your websites shortly after you enable it and both you and your visitors will enjoy faster loading times.
Memcached in VPS Servers
If you buy a VPS server from us, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no extra fee, as the distributed memory object caching platform comes with all VPS servers that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you’ve got large-sized Internet sites, you can increase their overall performance with ease and the lowered load on the server will enable you to keep your current Virtual Private Server plan instead of upgrading to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that Memcached can use to store data depends on the plan that you’re using, but even with a less powerful one, you will get no less than several hundred MB, which is considerably more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting package, so the website performance boost will be great. You can take advantage of Memcached with any database-driven web application, regardless of whether you’ve created it yourself or you are using a ready-for-use one such as Joomla™, WordPress or OpenCart.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
You can unlock the full potential of Memcached with each dedicated server offered by our company if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. A special section in it is dedicated to the distributed memory object caching system and you can begin using Memcached for any website hosted on the dedicated server with just a couple of mouse clicks. You can improve the overall performance of any site, no matter what script-powered web app you’re using or how heavy the website is, as the minimum amount of system memory that Memcached will be able to use is 3 gigabytes and this amount rises seriously with the more powerful dedicated servers. Soon after the caching system is activated, it will begin caching information anytime someone opens your site, so, once sufficient information has been cached, you will notice the lowered load on your dedicated machine and the enhanced overall performance of your website. The Memcached caching system is used by many sites, including famous portals like Reddit, Zynga and Wikipedia, which shows the effectiveness of the Memcached caching system.