Memcached is a famous memory caching platform, which can enhance the speed and the overall performance of your websites tremendously in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so if somebody conducts a search for a given product on your Internet site, for instance, the database will not have to be accessed to return the results and the whole procedure will be carried out notably faster. This is valid for all types of database-powered applications and not only for e-shops, since anytime a specific web page is opened, the application sends a database query to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site open considerably faster, but it will also create much less load. If any content in the database is updated, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the visitors won’t see any outdated information.

Memcached in Website Hosting

The Memcached data caching system is available as an optional upgrade with each Linux website hosting service that we’re offering and you’ll be able to begin using it once you order it, as the PHP extension that it needs so as to run properly is already installed on our innovative cloud web hosting platform. You can request the upgrade through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every web hosting plan and a brand-new Control Panel section where you can manage Memcached will appear. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts – the number of instances and the system memory, so as to give you more versatility. The first one refers to the number of the websites that can use Memcached, while the second, which is available in increments of 16 MB, determines the total size of the content that can be cached by the system. A traffic-heavy website with a large-size database may require more memory so as to take an even bigger advantage of the Memcached caching system, so if you need to upgrade this service, you will be able to do it at any given moment with a few mouse clicks.

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 effortlessly, since the memory caching platform’s activation takes a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The extension that is required is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using the Memcached caching platform the moment you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You’ll be able to choose how many Internet sites can use it and how much info it will cache, in other words – there’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your sites becomes very busy, for instance, you can always order more memory. Our system is truly flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a given number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can employ the Memcached caching platform to improve the loading speed of any script-powered site, including those based on famous Internet applications, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

When you buy one of our Linux dedicated servers and if you choose Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the signup process, you will get the Memcached data caching platform by default and you can enable it for each website that you host on the server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start caching information as people visit your site, so you’ll see the effect of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the Memcached platform is 3 gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to use the caching platform for lots of sites or for an extremely large Internet site without weakening its efficacy. The Memcached platform will enable you to accelerate any database-powered website in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online journal, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to optimize the overall performance of your dedicated machine.