Memcached is an object caching system, which is used to improve the speed of database-powered websites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. Simply put, anytime a certain web page on such a website is visited, the script connects to its database to fetch the information that should be displayed to the website visitor. If the latter clicks on a hyperlink to open a different web page, the entire procedure is repeated and this leads to plenty of database calls and high server load, especially if the website has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is opened again, the script no longer has to request any data from the database, since everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall loading speed of your site will "soar" and you will get more satisfied visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your website much faster. Besides, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache every time any information in the database is updated, so the site users will never wind up seeing out-of-date content.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

You can make use of Memcached with all Linux cloud hosting offered by us. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can enable with just a couple of clicks of the mouse via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system once you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more flexibility depending on the websites that you want to use it for. The first part reveals the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘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 order more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more data will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for busy sites with large databases and a lot of simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can increase the speed of any script-powered website hosted on our cloud servers without effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can add the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform to any of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and use its full potential for any script-driven site hosted on our servers. The upgrade is offered through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can choose two features – the instances and the memory. These things determine the number of the sites that can use Memcached and the amount of memory that it will use to store your data. You can select them separately, since a given instance is not bound to a particular amount of memory, so you can use a lot of memory for one traffic-hungry website, for example. This feature is available in increments of 16 MB and you can order as much memory as you need. The platform can be used with any script-driven website irrespective of its nature, including those based on widely used Internet apps like Joomla™, WordPress or Drupal™, and many companies like Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to improve the speed of their websites.

Memcached in Dedicated Hosting

Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can start using the content caching system once the dedicated server is completely functional, without the need to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the server that you have selected, but as our servers are very powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-requiring sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be three gigabytes. This will permit you to accelerate the performance of extremely popular sites without effort and you’ll notice the difference soon after Memcached starts caching database calls. You can use the Memcached caching system with any database-driven portal, including those based on famous CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.