Memcached is a content caching system, which is used to increase the loading speed of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the replies between the website visitor and the server. To put it in simple terms, anytime a given web page on such a website is accessed, the script queries its database to request the information that should be shown to the visitor. If the latter clicks a link to go to some other web page, the whole procedure is repeated and this leads to multiple database calls and excessive load on the server, particularly if the website has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so if any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer needs to extract any content from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will "soar" and you’ll have more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your site faster. At the same time, the Memcached platform updates its cache if any data in the database is changed, so the site users will never wind up seeing outdated data.
Memcached in Web Hosting
Memcached is available as an upgrade with each and every web hosting package offered by our company and if you want to use it for any script-driven site that you host on our innovative cloud hosting platform, you’ll be able to activate it in a few simple steps through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be offered the option to upgrade two separate things – the number of instances and the memory. The first one is related to the number of the websites that can use the Memcached content caching system simultaneously, so if you need it for several sites, you can get a number of instances. The second one refers to the total amount of memory that the system will be permitted to use to cache data, so for numerous sites (or for one single traffic-consuming site), you may want to get more memory for better results. The memory comes in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be ordered every time you need it. With Memcached, any script-driven Internet site hosted on our cloud servers will load blazing-fast.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can add the Memcached caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated servers offered by our company and use its full capacity for any script-driven website hosted by us. The upgrade is accessible through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can choose two things – the instances and the memory. These things determine how many sites can use the Memcached platform and the amount of system memory that it will use to cache your content. You can select them independently, since a given instance is not bound to a specific amount of memory, so you can use a lot of memory for a single large-size website, for example. This feature is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order as much memory as you like. The platform can be used with any script-driven website regardless of its nature, including those that are based on widely used software applications like Drupal™, Joomla™ or WordPress, and many companies such as Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to optimize the loading speed of their websites.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached is available as standard with all VPS servers that are ordered with our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it requires in order to function correctly is compiled when the Virtual Private Server is set up, so you can start using the distributed memory caching platform the moment your brand new virtual server is completely functional. The system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the given plan, but even with the less powerful plans, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal only for this platform. This will permit you to enhance the overall performance of multiple websites hosted on the VPS server at the same time and to lower the load even if you run large script-driven web pages with a lot of users. The caching platform can be used with any script – Joomla™, Mambo or Drupal™, or a custom one, and you’ll distinguish the better performance soon after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
If you acquire any of our Linux dedicated web hosting plans and if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel at signup, you will get the Memcached data caching platform by default and you can activate it for any site that you host on the dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start caching data as people visit your Internet site, so you’ll detect the result of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is 3 GB and normally, the more powerful the plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to use the platform for numerous sites or for an extremely large Internet site without weakening its efficiency. The Memcached caching platform will enable you to improve the load speed of any database-powered Internet site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online blog, an OpenCart e-shop, etc., and to improve the overall performance of your server.