Memcached is a content caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity lately due to its efficiency. It is used to cache queries and responses between a database and the application that is using it, which can boost the performance of your site and reduce the produced server load drastically. Every time a web page on an application-driven Internet site is accessed, the application connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then extracts it. With Memcached, these procedures are skipped, as the platform has already cached the content that should appear on a particular page. When any data is modified, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will never see old content. The platform is an ideal solution for every website that lures plenty of viewers, as it will make it incredibly fast and will enhance the user experience.

Memcached in Shared Website Hosting

You can make use of the Memcached distributed memory object caching system with all shared website hosting that we are offering. It is offered as an upgrade, which you can activate with only a few clicks through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs an extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one indicates the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the system memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can add more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more content will be cached, which may be a really good idea for frequently visited websites with large databases and lots of users. In this way, you can optimize the overall performance of any script-based site hosted on our servers without effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to take advantage of Memcached easily, as the distributed memory object caching platform’s setup takes a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The required PHP extension is already installed on our servers, so you can begin using the Memcached platform as soon as you add it to your account. You will be able to select how many sites can use it and how much data it will cache, i.e. there are two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely popular, for instance, you can always get more memory. Our system is unbelievably flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a particular number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can take advantage of the Memcached caching platform to increase the loading speed of any script-powered website, including those that are based on famous web-based apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

Memcached is available as standard with all VPS hosting packages that are ordered with our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it requires to function correctly is compiled when the VPS is configured, so you can start using the data caching platform as soon as your new server is fully operational. The system memory that the Memcached platform can employ depends on the particular VPS 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 increase the performance of multiple websites hosted on the VPS server at the same time and to lower the load on the virtual machine even if you’ve got resource-demanding script-driven web portals with multiple visitors. The platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Joomla™ or Drupal™, or a custom-built one, and you’ll notice the better performance soon after you start using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the caching system the moment your dedicated server is fully ready, without having to install or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the dedicated server that you have picked, but as our servers are extremely powerful and considering the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-consuming websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be 3 GB. This will permit you to optimize the overall performance of very busy websites without efforts and you’ll observe the difference soon after Memcached starts caching database requests. You can use the system with any database-powered web page, including those that are based on widely used CMSs such as WordPress and Joomla™.