Memcached is a widely used object caching platform, which can boost the speed and the overall performance of your Internet sites substantially if they use an API or a database. This is accomplished by caching the requests to the database/API and the replies that are delivered, so if a visitor conducts a search for some product on your site, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to show the results and the whole operation will be completed significantly quicker. This is valid for all sorts of database-driven apps and not only for web stores, since every time a given web page is opened, the app connects to its database to fetch the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site load considerably faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any content in the database is updated, the cached replies will also be ‘refreshed’, so the site visitors won’t see any old information.

Memcached in Hosting

You can take advantage of Memcached with all hosting that we’re offering. It is available as an upgrade, which you can acquire with only a couple of clicks through your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you wish to use it for. The first one specifies the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the system memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a really good idea for heavy-traffic websites with large databases and a lot of simultaneous visitors. Thus, you can optimize the loading speed of any script-based site hosted on our cloud servers with ease.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached with ease, since the platform’s activation requires a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension that it requires is already installed on our servers, so you can start using Memcached as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to select how many sites can use it and how much data can be cached, i.e. there’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes extremely busy, for example, you can always get more memory. Our system is quite flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of system memory. You can employ the Memcached caching platform to improve the loading speed of any script-powered website, including those that are based on widely used web-based apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached is included by default with each VPS server that we offer as long as you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel, so you won’t need to pay any extra cash to be able to take advantage of the maximum potential of this distributed memory object caching system. The more powerful plan you choose, the more system memory Memcached will have for information caching purposes, but you will have at least several hundred MB all the time, which is much more than what you’d get with a shared plan. This will permit you to use the Memcached system for lots of sites, irrespective of how popular they are, which in turn goes to say that you can use a less powerful package for them without overloading your VPS server. The caching system is perfect for script-powered web applications such as WordPress, Joomla™, OpenCart or Mambo, and you can use it even with a custom-made app. Shortly after you activate the Memcached caching system, it will begin storing data and you’ll note the enhanced overall performance of your websites.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our dedicated servers and if you pick Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the signup process, you’ll get the Memcached caching platform by default and you can activate it for each Internet site that you host on the dedicated server without upgrading or installing anything. It will begin storing data as users open your Internet site, so you’ll detect the effects of using it soon after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is 3 gigabytes and normally, the more powerful the package, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to use the caching platform for lots of websites or for an extremely popular Internet site without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached platform will enable you to accelerate the loading speed of any database-powered website very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online blog, an OpenCart store, etc., and to optimize the performance of your dedicated machine.