Memcached is a memory caching system, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years owing to its efficiency. It is used to cache requests and replies between a database and the application that uses it, which can enhance the performance of your site and reduce the generated load greatly. Anytime a page on an application-powered Internet site is accessed, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be displayed, and then pulls it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, since the platform has already cached all of the content that should be displayed on a certain web page. In case any content is changed, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the users will never end up seeing old data. The Memcached platform is an ideal solution for every Internet site that lures a lot of viewers, as it will make it faster than the speed of sound and will improve the user experience.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached distributed memory object caching system with all Linux shared hosting packages that we’re offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can enable with just a couple of clicks of the mouse via your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system once you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more freedom depending on the sites that you would like to use it for. The first part shows the number of the websites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can add more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have, the more data will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for traffic-intensive sites with large databases and many visitors. Thus, you can boost the performance of any script-powered website hosted on our cloud servers without efforts.
Memcached in Dedicated Hosting
If you get one of our Linux dedicated servers hosting packages and if you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel during the order process, you will get the Memcached data caching platform by default and you can activate it for each Internet site that you host on your dedicated machine without upgrading or installing anything. It will start caching information as people open your Internet site, so you’ll see the effect of using it soon after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is three gigabytes and normally, 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 websites or for an extremely heavy site without weakening its efficiency. Memcached will allow you to accelerate the speed of any database-powered site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress weblog, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to boost the performance of your server.