Memcached is a caching system, which has been gaining popularity in recent years because of its effectiveness. It’s used to cache calls and replies between a database and the application that uses it, which can improve the performance of your site and lessen the created server load drastically. Every time a page on an app-powered site is accessed, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be shown, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, since the platform has already cached all the content that should be shown on a certain page. If any content is updated, the Memcached content is updated too, so the site visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date content. Memcached is a perfect option for every Internet site that draws lots of viewers, as it will boost its speed and will improve the user experience.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

You can take advantage of the Memcached memory caching system with all shared hosting that we’re offering. It is available as an upgrade, which you can obtain with only a few clicks from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached the moment you order it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one determines the number of the sites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve got, the more data will be cached, which may be a really good idea for busy websites with large-size databases and numerous visitors. In this way, you can enhance the loading speed of any script-powered website hosted on our servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can get the Memcached caching system as an upgrade with all our semi-dedicated servers and since it works with any script-based application, you can use it for each website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers, irrespective of what application you have used – WordPress, Joomla™ or Mambo, a custom-built application, etc. You can order the upgrade via the respective section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two separate things – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. In other words, these things determine the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system and the total amount of memory that the system will be able to use in order to cache your information. The two things are offered independently for more flexibility and one instance does not come with a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can take full advantage of Memcached with any sort of site and both you and the visitors will quickly note the difference in the performance.

Memcached in VPS Servers

If you buy a VPS server from us, you will be able to use Memcached at no extra price, as the memory caching platform comes with all Virtual Private Servers that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you run resource-hungry Internet sites, you can improve their overall performance with no effort and the lowered load on the Virtual Private Server will permit you to keep using your current Virtual Private Server plan instead of switching to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that the Memcached platform can use to store data depends on the package that you’re using, but even with a less powerful one, you’ll get no less than several hundred megabytes, which is considerably more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting plan, so the website performance boost will be immense. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform with any database-powered app, regardless of whether you’ve built it on your own or you’re using a ready-made one like OpenCart, WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Memcached comes for free with all dedicated servers offered by our company and the one and only requirement is that the dedicated server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the distributed memory object caching system for any database-powered site, including those that are based on popular web apps – for example, a WordPress online blog or a Joomla™-powered community web portal. Each dedicated machine comes with a certain amount of memory that the Memcached system can use, but the minimum you will get is three gigabytes, which is sufficient enough to enhance the speed of extremely large websites enormously, as this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached information. The Memcached system will start caching info the moment it is enabled, so shortly thereafter, you’ll note the improved performance of your Internet sites and the lowered load. Many Internet sites use the Memcached caching system to improve their efficiency, including popular ones like Reddit and Wikipedia.