Memcached is a widely used caching platform, which can improve the speed and the performance of your Internet sites significantly in case they use an API or a database. This is accomplished by caching the requests to the database/API and the responses that are delivered, so if someone conducts a search for a given product on your site, for instance, the database will not have to be accessed to display the results and the whole procedure will be carried out considerably faster. That goes for all types of database-driven apps and not only for web stores, as every time a specific page is accessed, the application sends a database query to fetch the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your website open much faster, but it will also create much less server load. If any data in the database is updated, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the visitors won’t see any outdated info.

Memcached in Shared Web Hosting

You can use the Memcached content caching system with all shared web hosting that we’re offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can obtain with just a couple of clicks through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is already installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached as soon as you order it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more freedom depending on the Internet sites that you want to use it for. The first one concerns the number of the websites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘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 get more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve got, the more data will be cached, which may be a pretty good idea for heavy-traffic sites with large databases and numerous concurrent visitors. In this way, you can boost the overall performance of any script-powered site hosted on our servers effortlessly.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you buy any of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you’d like to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in your account, you can add it with only a few clicks of the mouse. The data caching platform is ideal for any script-powered software app such as WordPress, Joomla™, or even an in-house built application, and depending on your requirements, you will be able to select two different features – how many Internet sites will use the Memcached platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will use. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you manage a popular site with lots of data, you can get one instance and a larger amount of memory. Memcached will accelerate the overall performance of your Internet sites shortly after you enable it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy better loading times.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

Each dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using this distributed memory caching system the moment the dedicated server is fully ready, without the need to activate or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the server that you have chosen, but as our servers are remarkably powerful and considering the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-hungry websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be 3 gigabytes. This will permit you to enhance the performance of extremely large websites with ease and you will observe the difference shortly after Memcached begins caching database queries. You can use the caching system with any database-driven web portal, including those that are based on popular CMSs such as WordPress and Joomla™.