Memcached is a popular distributed memory caching platform, which can improve the speed and the performance of your Internet sites drastically in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the database/API and the responses that are delivered, so if a client conducts a search for a given product on your Internet site, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the whole operation will be completed noticeably faster. This goes for all types of database-powered apps and not only for web shops, as every time a given web page is accessed, the application sends a query to its database to get the data that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website load significantly faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be updated, so the site visitors won’t see any old information.
Memcached in Website Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached content caching system with all website hosting that we are offering. It’s available as an optional upgrade, which you can order with just a few clicks from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached the moment you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the websites that you want to use it for. The first part determines the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, while the second one refers to the system memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve added, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for traffic-intensive sites with large-size databases and lots of visitors. Thus, you can boost the overall performance of any script-powered website hosted on our servers without any efforts.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You can get Memcached as an upgrade with each of our semi-dedicated packages and since it works with any script-powered application, you can use it for any website that you host on our platform, regardless of what app you have used – Mambo, Joomla™ or WordPress, a custom-developed app, etc. You can order the upgrade via the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated account, and you can select two separate features – the instances and the amount of memory that they will use. In simple terms, these things determine the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached system and how much memory the system will be able to use in order to cache your data. The two things are ordered independently for more freedom and one instance does not come with a fixed amount of memory. You can use the Memcached system with any kind of website and both you and your website visitors will quickly detect the difference in the performance.
Memcached in VPS Hosting
Memcached is available by default with all Linux VPS hosting ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it needs in order to perform properly is compiled when the virtual server is set up, so you can begin using the object caching platform once your brand-new virtual server is fully operational. The system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use depends on the given VPS plan, but even with the less powerful ones, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal only for this platform. This will permit you to improve the performance of multiple websites hosted on the VPS server simultaneously and to decrease the load on the virtual machine even if you have data-heavy script-driven sites with plenty of visitors. Memcached can be used with any script – Joomla™, Mambo or Drupal™, or a custom-built script, and you will see the faster performance shortly after you begin using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting
Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using the content caching system the moment the dedicated server is completely ready, without having to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you’ve picked, but as our servers are rather powerful and given the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-intensive websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is three gigabytes. This will permit you to optimize the overall performance of extremely large websites without efforts and you will distinguish the difference soon after the Memcached caching system begins caching database queries. You can make use of the Memcached system with any database-powered portal, including those that are based on popular Content Management Systems such as WordPress and Joomla™.