Memcached is a data caching system, which is used to accelerate the performance of database-powered websites by caching the requests and the replies between the user and the server. In other words, every time a specific web page on such a website is opened, the script connects to its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to go to a different web page, the entire process is executed again and this leads to lots of database calls and higher load on the server, particularly if the website has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these pages is visited again, the script no longer needs to request any information from the database, as everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall loading speed of your website will increase and you’ll have more happy visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your site faster. At the same time, the Memcached platform updates its cache whenever any content in the database is edited, so the visitors will never end up seeing old data.

Memcached in Web Hosting

When you host script-based sites in a web hosting account with our company, you can add the Memcached distributed memory object caching system to your plan with only a few clicks of the mouse from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantly and, since the PHP extension required for it is already installed on our avant-garde cloud platform, you can start using it right away. To give you more versatility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many sites will use Memcached) and to the system memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order memory whenever you need. Logically, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more data it will cache, so if you have a large-scale website with lots of data, you may require more memory to be able to take advantage of the power that Memcached can offer you.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you get one of our dedicated servers and if you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel during the signup process, you will get the Memcached caching platform by default and you can enable it for each site that you host on the server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start storing content as people open your Internet site, so you will notice the effects of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 GB and normally, the more powerful the dedicated plan, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to take advantage of the caching platform for many sites or for a very popular website without weakening its efficacy. The Memcached caching platform will permit you to boost the loading speed of any database-driven website very quickly – a Joomla portal, a WordPress personal blog, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to boost the performance of your server.