Memcached is a caching platform, which has been gaining popularity lately due to its effectiveness. It’s used to cache requests and responses between a database and the application that uses it, which can enhance the overall performance of your Internet site and lessen the produced server load considerably. Anytime a web page on an app-driven site is visited, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be displayed, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, as the platform has already cached all of the content that should be displayed on a specific webpage. If any data is modified, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the visitors will never end up seeing old content. Memcached is an ideal solution for any website that has a lot of visitors, as it will make it faster than the speed of sound and will enhance the overall user experience.
Memcached in Cloud Hosting
The Memcached data caching system is available as an optional upgrade with every cloud hosting plan that we are offering and you will be able to start using it the moment you add it, since the extension that it requires in order to perform correctly is pre-installed on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. You can order the upgrade via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes bundled with every hosting package and a brand-new Control Panel section where you can manage Memcached will appear. The upgrade is separated into two parts – the number of instances and the memory, so as to offer you more versatility. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that can use Memcached, while the second, which is available in increments of 16 MB, indicates the maximum size of the content that the system can cache. A frequently visited Internet site with a very large database may require more memory in order to take an even bigger advantage of the Memcached caching system, so in case you’d like to upgrade this feature, you will be able to do it at any given time with several mouse clicks.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can add the Memcached caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated plans offered by our company and use its full potential for any script-driven site hosted by us. The upgrade is available through the Hepsia Control Panel and you can select two features – the instances and the system memory. These things indicate the number of the websites that can use the Memcached platform and the amount of system memory that it will use to store your data. You can select them separately, since a given instance is not linked to a particular amount of memory, so you can use lots of memory for a single resource-consuming Internet site, for instance. This upgrade is available in increments of 16 MB and you can get as much memory as you need. The platform can be used with any script-driven site irrespective of its type, including those based on popular software applications like Drupal™, Joomla™ or WordPress, and lots of companies such as Wikipedia and Zynga are already using it to accelerate the loading speed of their websites.
Memcached in VPS Servers
When you acquire a VPS server from us, you will be able to use Memcached at no extra cost, as the platform comes with all VPS servers that are ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. Even if you’ve got resource-hungry Internet sites, you can optimize their performance without any effort and the reduced load on your virtual machine will allow you to keep using your current plan instead of moving to a more powerful one. The amount of memory that the Memcached platform can use to cache content depends on the plan that you are using, but even with a lower-end one, you’ll have at least several hundred MB, which is considerably more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting plan, so the website performance boost will be tremendous. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform with any database-driven web application, irrespective of whether you’ve built it yourself or you are using a ready-made one such as Joomla™, OpenCart or WordPress.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
If you get any of our dedicated web hosting plans and if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel during the order process, you will get the Memcached platform as standard and you can enable it for each website that you host on the server without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing content as users visit your site, so you will see the results of using it shortly after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the Memcached caching platform is 3 gigabytes and normally, the more powerful the dedicate server package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to take advantage of the caching platform for a large number of websites or for a very popular website without weakening its efficiency. The Memcached platform will allow you to improve the loading speed of any database-powered website in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal diary, an OpenCart e-shop, etcetera, and to improve the performance of your dedicated machine.