Memcached is a distributed memory object caching platform, which is used to optimize the speed of database-powered websites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. To put it differently, anytime a certain web page on such a site is opened, the script connects to its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to go to some other page, the entire procedure is performed again and this leads to multiple database queries and excessive server load, especially if the website has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so in case any of these pages is opened again, the script no longer has to request any data from the database, since everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your website will increase and you’ll enjoy more gratified visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your website faster. In addition, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache every time any information in the database is altered, so the users will never end up seeing old content.
Memcached in Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached distributed memory caching system with all hosting offered by our company. It is available as an upgrade, which you can obtain with only a few clicks through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more freedom depending on the Internet sites that you wish to use it for. The first one concerns the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have added, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for busy sites with very large databases and numerous simultaneous visitors. In this way, you can boost the loading speed of every script-based site hosted on our servers without effort.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to take advantage of Memcached easily, as the content caching platform’s setup takes a couple of clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension that is required is pre-installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can start using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to choose how many websites can use it and how much info can be cached, i.e. there are two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the amount of memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very busy, for instance, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is rather flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a specific number of instances to a pre-defined amount of system memory. You can use the Memcached caching platform to increase the loading speed of any script-driven site, including those that are based on popular software applications, such as WordPress or Joomla™.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached comes as standard with all VPS servers ordered with our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension it requires to work correctly is compiled when the virtual server is configured, so you can start using the object caching platform as soon as your brand new VPS is completely operational. The system memory that Memcached can use depends on the particular VPS plan, but even with the lower-end plans, you will get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal only for this platform. This will permit you to optimize the performance of multiple websites hosted on the virtual server simultaneously and to reduce the load even if you manage heavy script-based websites with numerous users. The platform can be used with any script – Joomla™, Drupal™ or Mambo, or a custom-built one, and you will notice the faster performance shortly after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the object caching system once your server is ready, without the need to install or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can use depends on the very server that you have picked, but as our servers are extremely powerful and given the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-demanding sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be three gigabytes. This will allow you to increase the performance of extremely busy websites effortlessly and you’ll distinguish the difference soon after Memcached begins caching database requests. You can make use of the caching system with any database-powered website, including those based on popular Content Management Systems such as WordPress and Joomla™.