Memcached is an object caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years due to its efficiency. It is used to cache queries and replies between a database and the application that’s using it, which can increase the performance of your website and decrease the produced server load greatly. Every time a page on an application-powered website is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these steps are omitted, since the platform has already cached the content that should show up on a particular webpage. When any data is changed, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date data. The Memcached platform is an ideal choice for every site that lures a lot of visitors, since it will boost its speed and will enhance the user experience.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

If you host script-driven sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add the Memcached distributed memory caching system to your shared hosting package with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available immediately and, since the necessary extension is already installed on our avant-garde cloud platform, you can start using it right away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many Internet sites will use Memcached) and to the amount of system memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can add as much memory as you like. Logically, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more content it will cache, so in case you run a traffic-consuming site with a lot of content, you may need more memory in order to be able to take full advantage of the power that Memcached can offer you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you will find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades section of your Hepsia Control Panel, so if you wish to use it for any of the sites hosted in your account, you can activate it with only a couple of clicks. The content caching platform is perfect for any script-driven web app such as Joomla™, WordPress, or even an in-house made application, and based on your requirements, you’ll be able to select two different features – how many websites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much content will be stored, i.e. the amount of memory that the platform will use. The two things are not bound to each other, so if you’ve got a frequently visited Internet site with lots of content, you can get one instance and a larger amount of system memory. The Memcached platform will increase the performance of your websites shortly after you activate it and both you and your visitors will enjoy much better load speeds.

Memcached in VPS Servers

You will get Memcached with any of the VPS server packages that we are offering if you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel and you will be able to activate the distributed memory object caching platform through the Control Panel section with the same name. The activation takes a few clicks and you will see the difference in the performance of your sites almost instantly. The amount of memory that the Memcached platform can employ to cache info depends on the given Virtual Private Server hosting plan that you have chosen, but in any case it will not be less than several hundred megabytes, which is more than enough even for multiple regularly visited Internet sites. You can use Memcached with Internet sites powered by WordPress, Joomla™ or any other software application and decrease the load on your virtual machine, which will allow you to keep using the current VPS plan instead of switching to a more powerful one, as you will simply not need it. Memcached is already being used by popular websites such as Reddit, Zynga and Wikipedia, which verifies its effectiveness.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you purchase any of our Linux dedicated web hosting plans and if you select Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the signup procedure, you’ll get the Memcached memory caching platform as standard and you can activate it for each site that you host on the dedicated machine without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing information as users visit your Internet site, so you’ll notice the results of using it shortly after that. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the Memcached platform is 3 gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to take advantage of the caching platform for numerous websites or for a very heavy website without compromising its effectiveness. Memcached will enable you to boost the load speed of any database-driven site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress weblog, an OpenCart e-store, etc., and to improve the overall performance of your server.