Memcached is a content caching platform, which is used to enhance the speed of database-driven sites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. To put it in simple terms, every time a particular page on such a site is accessed, the script sends a query to its database to fetch the info that should be shown to the visitor. If the latter clicks a link to visit another page, the whole operation is repeated and this results in multiple database requests and high server load, especially if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is visited again, the script no longer needs to extract any info from the database, since everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall loading speed of your site will "soar" and you will have more gratified visitors and they’ll be able to browse your site much faster. What’s more, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache when any data in the database is edited, so the website users will never see old content.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

When you host script-powered websites in a shared hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add the Memcached caching system to your shared hosting package with only a couple of clicks through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the necessary PHP extension is pre-installed on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform, you can begin using it straight away. To give you more versatility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many sites will use Memcached) and to the memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and you can add memory whenever you want. Logically, the more memory the Memcached caching system is permitted to use, the more data it will cache, so in case you own a heavy-traffic website with a lot of content, you may need more memory to be able to take full advantage of the power that Memcached can give you.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, as the memory caching platform’s setup takes a few clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The PHP extension that it requires is already installed on our servers, so you can begin using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your account. You will be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much info can be cached, i.e. there are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. You can order more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely busy, for example, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is pretty flexible in this regard and we do not bind a particular number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can employ the Memcached platform to speed up any script-driven Internet site, including those based on famous software apps, such as Joomla™ or WordPress.

Memcached in VPS Servers

When you get a VPS server from us, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no additional charge, as the content caching platform is available with all Virtual Private Servers that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you run content-heavy Internet sites, you can accelerate their overall performance without any effort and the decreased load on the Virtual Private Server will enable you to continue using your current Virtual Private Server plan instead of migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to store data depends on the plan that you’re using, but even with a less powerful one, you’ll get no less than several hundred megabytes, which is considerably more than what you’d get with a shared plan, so the website performance boost will be tremendous. You can use Memcached with any database-driven web application, irrespective of whether you have written it on your own or you’re using a ready-for-use one like Joomla™, OpenCart or WordPress.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

When you acquire one of our dedicated servers and if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel on the order page, you will get the Memcached platform as standard and you can activate it for any Internet site that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin caching information as people access your website, so you will notice the effect of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 GB and naturally, the more powerful the dedicate server plan, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to take advantage of the platform for lots of sites or for an extremely heavy Internet site without weakening its effectiveness. Memcached will enable you to accelerate the load speed of any database-driven website in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress blog, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to enhance the performance of your dedicated machine.