Memcached is a commonly used distributed memory caching platform, which can improve the speed and the performance of your sites considerably if they use an API or a database. This is achieved by caching the requests to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so if a customer conducts a search for a certain product on your site, for example, the database will not have to be accessed to display the results and the whole task will be carried out much faster. That goes for all sorts of database-powered applications and not only for e-shops, as anytime a particular page is opened, the app sends a request to its database to fetch the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site load much faster, but it will also generate much less load. If any content in the database is edited, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the site visitors won’t see any out-of-date info.
Memcached in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host script-powered sites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add the Memcached distributed memory caching system to your hosting plan with only a couple of clicks of the mouse from your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantly and, since the required PHP extension is already installed on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform, you can start using it straight away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many Internet sites will use Memcached) and to the system memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and you can add memory whenever you like. Naturally, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more data it will cache, so in case you have a large-scale website with lots of content, you may need more memory so as to be able to make full use of the power that Memcached can give you.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to take advantage of Memcached with ease, since the memory caching platform’s activation requires several mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The PHP extension that is required is already installed on our servers, so you can begin using the Memcached caching platform the moment you add it to your account. You will be able to choose how many 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 system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your websites becomes extremely popular, for example, you can always order more memory. Our system is amazingly flexible in this regard and we do not tie a particular number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can use Memcached to accelerate any script-powered site, including those that are based on popular apps, such as Joomla™ or WordPress.
Memcached in VPS
Memcached comes by default with all VPS ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it requires in order to function correctly is compiled when the virtual server is configured, so you can start using the object caching platform as soon as your new server is completely operational. The memory that the Memcached platform can use depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the less powerful ones, several hundred megabytes will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will allow you to accelerate the overall performance of multiple websites hosted on the VPS server at the same time and to reduce the load even if you own popular script-based sites with numerous visitors. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Joomla™ or Drupal™, or a custom-developed one, and you will see the better performance shortly after you begin using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Hosting
If you obtain one of our Linux dedicated hosting and if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel on the order form, you will get the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform as standard and you can enable it for any site that you host on the server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start storing data 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 caching platform is 3 GB and naturally, the more powerful the package, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to use the caching platform for plenty of websites or for an extremely popular site without weakening its effectiveness. The Memcached caching platform will allow you to improve the loading speed of any database-powered Internet site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online journal, an OpenCart e-shop, etc., and to optimize the performance of your dedicated machine.