Memcached is a widely used distributed memory object caching system, which can increase the loading speed and the performance of your sites substantially in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so when a client searches for some product on your website, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the whole task will be carried out noticeably quicker. This is valid for all kinds of database-driven applications and not only for web stores, since anytime a particular web page is opened, the application sends a database query to fetch the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website load considerably faster, but it will also create much less server load. If any content in the database is edited, the cached responses will also be updated, so the website visitors won’t see any old info.

Memcached in Website Hosting

Memcached comes as an upgrade with each website hosting package offered by us and if you’d like to use it for any script-powered site that you host on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform, you’ll be able to order it in a couple of simple steps via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be given the option to upgrade two different features – the instances and the system memory. The first one is related to the number of the sites that can use the Memcached content caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several sites, you can get a handful of instances. The second one refers to the maximum amount of memory that the system will be able to use to cache information, so for a lot of websites (or for one single resource-demanding site), you’d better order more memory for better results. The memory is available in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be ordered at any moment. With the Memcached caching system, any script-based website hosted on our cloud servers will load extremely fast.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you’d like to use it for any of the sites hosted in your semi-dedicated account, you can add it with just a couple of clicks. The content caching platform is perfect for any script-based app such as WordPress, Joomla™, or even a custom-made app, and depending on your demands, you will be able to select two different things – how many 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 memory that the platform will employ. The two things are not tied to each other, so if you own a popular Internet site with a lot of content, you can get one instance and a larger amount of system memory. The Memcached platform will accelerate the overall performance of your sites shortly after you enable it and both you and your visitors will enjoy much faster loading times.

Memcached in VPS

You’ll get Memcached with each of the virtual private server packages offered by us in case you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you will be able to activate the data caching platform through the section with the same name. The configuration requires several clicks of the mouse and you will detect the difference in the overall performance of your sites almost immediately. The amount of system memory that the Memcached platform can employ to cache info depends on the given VPS package that you’ve selected, but at any rate it won’t be less than several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple heavy sites. You can use Memcached with sites powered by Joomla™, WordPress or any other web app and decrease the load on your server, which will allow you to keep using the current Virtual Private Server plan rather than upgrading to a more powerful one, since you simply won’t need it. Memcached is already being used by popular websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Zynga, which is an evidence of its effectiveness.

Memcached in Dedicated Hosting

Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the content caching system as soon as your server is fully ready, without having to activate or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the dedicated server that you have chosen, but since our servers are rather powerful and given the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-requiring Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is 3 GB. This will enable you to accelerate the performance of very popular sites without effort and you will detect the difference shortly after Memcached starts caching database requests. You can make full use of the caching system with any database-driven portal, including those that are based on popular CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.