Memcached is an object caching system, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years due to its effectiveness. It’s used to cache queries and replies between a database and the app that’s using it, which can boost the performance of your site and lessen the produced load significantly. Anytime a webpage on an app-powered site is visited, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then pulls it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, since the platform has already cached all the content that should be shown on a given page. If any content is changed, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the visitors will never see out-of-date content. The Memcached platform is a perfect solution for every Internet site that has numerous visitors, since it will make it super-fast and will improve the user experience.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
The Memcached distributed memory caching system is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every shared hosting plan offered by our company and you can begin using it as soon as you enable it, since the PHP extension that it requires in order to function properly is already installed on our advanced cloud hosting platform. You can request the upgrade from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with each and every web hosting plan and a brand new section where you can manage Memcached will show up. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts – the instances and the system memory, so as to give you more versatility. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached caching system, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 16 MB, specifies the total size of the content that can be cached by the system. A traffic-intensive website with a large-size database may require more memory in order to take an even greater advantage of Memcached, so if you’d like to upgrade this feature, you will be able to do it at any given moment with a couple of clicks.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can get the Memcached caching system as an optional upgrade with all our semi-dedicated plans and since it works with any script-powered application, you can use it for every site that you host on our platform, regardless of what app you have used – WordPress, Mambo or Joomla™, a custom-created application, etc. You can add the upgrade through the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two different features – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. To put it simply, these things determine how many sites will use the Memcached caching system and the total amount of memory that the system will be able to use to cache your info. The two features are offered independently for more flexibility and one instance does not come bundled with a pre-defined amount of memory. You can use the Memcached system with any kind of website and both you and your visitors will swiftly notice the difference in the overall performance.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached comes by default with every VPS server that we’re offering as long as you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel, so you will not need to pay any extra cash to be able to make the most of the maximum potential of this content caching system. The more powerful plan you choose, the more memory Memcached will have for information caching purposes, but you will have at least several hundred MB at all times, which is much more than what you would get with a shared plan. This will allow you to use Memcached for lots of websites, regardless of how busy they are, which in turn means that you can use a lower-end plan for them without overloading your Virtual Private Server. The caching system is suitable for script-based applications such as WordPress, OpenCart, Joomla™ or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom-built app. Soon after you activate Memcached, it will start caching information and you’ll detect the optimized performance of your websites.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Memcached is available free of charge with all dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering and the sole condition is that the dedicated server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the memory caching system for any database-driven website, including those that are based on popular web apps – for instance, a WordPress personal blog or a Joomla™-driven community website. Each dedicated server comes with a specific amount of system memory that Memcached can use, but the minimum you’ll get is 3 gigabytes, which is sufficient enough to accelerate extremely busy sites greatly, as this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached data. The Memcached system will start caching content the moment it is activated, so soon thereafter, you will note the improved overall performance of your websites and the lowered load on your dedicated machine. A lot of Internet sites use the Memcached system to improve their efficacy, among them famous ones such as Wikipedia and Reddit.