Memcached is an object caching platform, which is used to supercharge the loading speed of database-powered sites by caching the queries and the replies between the website visitor and the server. In other words, every time a certain page on such a website is visited, the script connects to its database to get the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks on a link to go to some other page, the whole process is repeated and this generates a lot of database queries and excessive load on the server, especially if the website has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this exchange of information, so if any of these pages is opened again, the script no longer needs to extract any information from the database, as everything is delivered by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your site will "soar" and you’ll enjoy more happy visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your website faster. Moreover, Memcached updates its cache when any information in the database is changed, so the site visitors will never wind up seeing old data.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

When you host script-powered sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you can add Memcached to your shared hosting plan with just a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the needed PHP extension is already installed on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, you can start using it right away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many Internet sites will use Memcached) and to the amount of memory that Memcached will use. The latter is offered in increments of 16 MB and you can order memory as many times as you wish. Naturally, the more memory the Memcached caching system is permitted to use, the more content it will cache, so if you’ve got a traffic-consuming site with lots of data, you may require more memory so as to be able to make the most of the power that Memcached can give you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you’ll find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades part of your Hepsia Control Panel, so if you would like to use it for any of the websites hosted in your semi-dedicated account, you can enable it with only a few clicks. The distributed memory object caching platform is perfect for any script-driven software app such as WordPress, Joomla™, or even a tailor-made one, and depending on your demands, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will use. The two things are not bound to each other, so if you have a popular Internet site with lots of content, you can get one instance and a large amount of memory. The Memcached platform will boost the overall performance of your Internet sites shortly after you enable it and both you and your site visitors will enjoy much faster loading speeds.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

Memcached comes by default with all VPS hosting that are ordered with our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The PHP extension it requires so as to perform correctly is compiled when the VPS server is configured, so you can start using the caching platform the moment your new VPS is fully operational. The system memory that Memcached can use depends on the given plan, but even with the low-end ones, several hundred megabytes will be at your disposal only for this platform. This will allow you to boost the overall performance of multiple sites hosted on the VPS simultaneously and to lower the load on the virtual machine even if you have large-size script-driven portals with many viewers. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Drupal™, Joomla™ or Mambo, or a custom-built script, and you will detect the faster overall performance soon after you begin using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can take advantage of the full potential of Memcached with each dedicated server that we are offering in case you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. A section in it is dedicated to the distributed memory object caching system and you can start using Memcached for any site hosted on the dedicated server with only a few mouse clicks. You can optimize the performance of any Internet site, regardless of what script-powered application you are using or how popular the website is, since the minimum amount of system memory that Memcached will be able to use is 3 gigabytes and this amount increases immensely with the more powerful servers. Shortly after the system is activated, it will start caching info every time somebody opens your website, so, as soon as enough info has been cached, you’ll notice the decreased server load and the improved overall performance of your Internet site. The Memcached system is used by many websites, among them popular portals such as Zynga, Wikipedia and Reddit, which verifies the effectiveness of the Memcached system.