Memcached is a data caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years because of its efficiency. It is used to cache requests and responses between a database and the app that uses it, which can improve the performance of your site and lessen the generated load greatly. Anytime a web page on an application-driven website is accessed, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then extracts it. With Memcached, these steps are omitted, as the platform has already cached all of the content that should show up on a specific webpage. In case any content is modified, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors will never see out-of-date content. The platform is an ideal option for any website that entices many viewers, since it will make it faster than the speed of light and will enhance the overall user experience.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

You can use the Memcached data caching system with all Linux shared hosting offered by us. It is offered as an upgrade, which you can activate with just a couple of clicks via your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached the moment you order it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you’d like to use it for. The first one specifies the number of the Internet sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for traffic-heavy sites with very large databases and plenty of visitors. In this way, you can enhance the loading speed of every script-based site hosted on our cloud servers without effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you’ll find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you want to use it for any of the sites hosted in the semi-dedicated server hosting account, you can add it with only a few mouse clicks. The distributed memory caching platform is ideal for any script-powered software app like WordPress, Joomla™, or even a custom-made application, and depending on your necessities, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will use. The two things are not tied to each other, so if you own a high-demand Internet site with lots of data, you can get one instance and a larger amount of system memory. Memcached will optimize the overall performance of your websites shortly after you activate it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy much faster loading times.

Memcached in VPS

If you buy a virtual private server from our company, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no additional price, as the platform is offered with all VPSs that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have data-loaded Internet sites, you can increase their performance without any effort and the reduced load on the virtual server will permit you to keep using your current VPS package rather than migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache content depends on the plan that you’re using, but even with a low-end one, you’ll have no less than several hundred MB, which is considerably more than what you’d get with a shared hosting plan, so the website performance boost will be significant. You can take advantage of Memcached with any database-powered application, irrespective of whether you’ve built it yourself or you are using a ready-made one such as Joomla™, WordPress or OpenCart.

Memcached in Dedicated Hosting

When you order one of our Linux dedicated hosting and if you pick Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel during the signup procedure, you’ll get the Memcached content caching platform by default and you can activate it for each website that you host on the server without upgrading or installing anything. It will start storing data as users access your Internet site, so you will detect the effect of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 GB and normally, the more powerful the dedicated package, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will allow you to use the platform for plenty of Internet sites or for an extremely large website without compromising its efficacy. Memcached will enable you to increase the loading speed of any database-powered Internet site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online diary, an OpenCart store, etc., and to enhance the performance of your dedicated machine.