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 app that’s using it, which can improve the overall performance of your Internet site and lessen the produced server load immensely. Anytime a webpage on an application-powered website is accessed, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be displayed, and then extracts it. With Memcached, these procedures are skipped, since the platform has already cached all the content that should be displayed on a particular webpage. In case any content is edited, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing outdated content. The Memcached platform is an excellent option for every site that attracts a lot of visitors, since it will speed it up and will enhance the overall user experience.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
Memcached is offered as an upgrade with each shared hosting plan that we offer and if you’d like to use it for any script-driven website that you host on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, you’ll be able to activate it in a few simple steps via your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be offered the option to upgrade two separate features – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that can use the Memcached object caching system simultaneously, so if you need it for several sites, you can order a number of instances. The second one has to do with the maximum amount of memory that the system will be allowed to use in order to cache information, so for plenty of sites (or for one single resource-requiring site), you may want to get more memory for better results. The memory is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be added every time you need it. With Memcached, each script-driven site hosted on our cloud servers will load faster than the speed of light.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to take advantage of Memcached with ease, as the data caching platform’s setup requires a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The required PHP extension is pre-installed on our servers, so you can begin using the Memcached platform as soon as you add it to your account. You’ll be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much information it will cache, in other words – there’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the amount of system memory. You can add more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very popular, for instance, you can always get more memory. Our system is pretty flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can use the Memcached caching platform to accelerate any script-driven Internet site, including those that are based on famous web apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Each dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the distributed memory object caching system once your dedicated server is assembled, without the need to upgrade or install anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the dedicated server that you’ve picked, but since our servers are astonishingly powerful and given the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-intensive Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use is three gigabytes. This will allow you to enhance the overall performance of extremely large sites without efforts and you will detect the difference shortly after the Memcached caching system starts caching database requests. You can take full advantage of the caching system with any database-driven portal, including those based on widely used Content Management Systems like WordPress and Joomla™.