Memcached is an object caching platform, which is used to accelerate the loading speed of database-driven websites by caching the calls and the replies between the website visitor and the server. Put simply, every time a particular web page on such a site is opened, the script calls its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the website visitor. If the latter clicks on a link to open some other page, the whole procedure is repeated and this results in plenty of database requests and excessive server load, particularly if the website has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so in case any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer needs to fetch any information 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 pleased visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your site much faster. Besides, Memcached updates its cache whenever any data in the database is changed, so the visitors will never see old content.
Memcached in Website Hosting
Memcached is offered as an upgrade with each website hosting account that we’re offering and in case you want to use it for any script-based site that you host on our avant-garde cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it in a few simple steps via your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be offered the option to upgrade two separate features – the instances and the system memory. The first one is related to the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached object caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several websites, you can order a handful of instances. The second one has to do with the total amount of memory that Memcached will be permitted to use in order to cache data, so for plenty of websites (or for one single resource-hungry site), you may want to order more memory for better results. The memory is available in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be added at any moment. With Memcached, each script-powered Internet site hosted on our cloud servers will open unbelievably fast.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you’ll find Memcached as an optional feature in the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel, so if you would like to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in the semi-dedicated account, you can enable it with just a few clicks of the mouse. The platform is perfect for any script-based software app like Joomla™, WordPress, or even an in-house made one, and based on your requirements, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use Memcached, i.e. the number of instances; and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will employ. The two things are not tied to each other, so if you run a popular Internet site with lots of content, you can order one instance and a larger amount of memory. The Memcached platform will improve the overall performance of your websites shortly after you enable it and both you and your site visitors will enjoy faster loading speeds.
Memcached in VPS Servers
You will get Memcached with any of the VPS server plans offered by our company when you select Hepsia as your Control Panel and you will be able to activate the memory caching platform through the Control Panel section with the exact same name. The setup takes several clicks and you will detect the difference in the performance of your Internet sites almost momentarily. The amount of memory that Memcached can take advantage of to store data depends on the particular VPS hosting package that you have picked, but at any rate it will not be less than several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several popular Internet sites. You can use the Memcached platform with websites based on WordPress, Joomla™ or any other web-based application and reduce the load on your virtual server, which will permit you to keep using the current VPS hosting plan rather than moving to a more powerful one, since you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites such as Zynga, Wikipedia and Reddit, which is an evidence of its efficacy.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Each dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the distributed memory caching system as soon as the dedicated server is completely operational, without needing to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the server that you have chosen, but since our servers are pretty powerful and considering the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-hungry Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 gigabytes. This will permit you to improve the performance of extremely busy sites with no effort and you will observe the difference soon after the Memcached caching system starts caching database calls. You can make full use of the system with any database-driven website, including those based on popular Content Management Systems like Joomla™ and WordPress.