Memcached is a popular caching system, which can enhance the speed and the performance of your websites significantly if they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the replies that are delivered, so when a user searches for a specific product on your Internet site, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to display the results and the whole task will be carried out notably faster. This is valid for all kinds of database-driven applications and not only for shopping portals, as every time a web page is opened, the application connects to its database to fetch the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your website open significantly faster, but it will also generate much less load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users will not see any old info.

Memcached in Website Hosting

The Memcached object caching system comes as an upgrade with every website hosting that we’re offering and you will be able to start using it the moment you activate it, since the extension that it needs in order to perform properly is already installed on our innovative cloud website hosting platform. You can request the upgrade through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with each and every hosting package and a new section where you can manage Memcached will show up. The upgrade is separated into two parts – the instances and the amount of memory, so as to give you more versatility. The first one refers to the number of the websites which can use Memcached, while the second, which is offered in increments of 16 MB, determines the total size of the content that the system can cache. A traffic-heavy Internet site with a very large database may require more memory to take an even greater advantage of the Memcached caching system, so if you want to upgrade this feature, you will be able to do it at any given moment with a couple of clicks.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you wish to use it for any of the sites hosted in the account, you can add it with only a few clicks. The data caching platform is ideal for any script-powered app such as WordPress, Joomla™, or even an in-house made application, and depending on your necessities, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many sites will use the Memcached platform, in other words – the number of instances; and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory that the platform will employ. The two things are not bound to each other, so if you have a frequently visited Internet site with lots of content, you can get one instance and a large amount of memory. The Memcached caching platform will boost the performance of your sites shortly after you activate it and both you and your visitors will enjoy much better loading speeds.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

You’ll get Memcached with each of the virtual private server packages that we offer when you select Hepsia as your Control Panel and you will be able to activate the distributed memory caching platform through the Control Panel section with the very same name. The configuration takes a couple of clicks of the mouse and you’ll detect the difference in the overall performance of your sites almost momentarily. The amount of memory that Memcached can employ to cache content depends on the particular VPS hosting package that you have chosen, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred megabytes, which is more than enough even for multiple intense-traffic websites. You can use the Memcached platform with sites powered by Joomla™, WordPress or any other web application and reduce the load on your virtual server, which will enable you to continue using the current Virtual Private Server plan rather than switching to a more powerful one, as you simply won’t need it. Memcached is already being used by popular websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Zynga, which demonstrates its efficiency.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you obtain any of our dedicated hosting services and if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel during the signup procedure, you’ll get Memcached as standard and you can use it with each website that you host on your dedicated machine without upgrading or installing anything. It will begin storing info as users access your site, so you will notice the effect of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is 3 gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the package, the more system memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for many Internet sites or for an extremely busy site without weakening its effectiveness. The Memcached platform will allow you to boost the speed of any database-driven site very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online blog, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to optimize the performance of your dedicated machine.