Memcached is a caching system, which has been gaining in popularity lately because of its efficiency. It’s used to cache requests and replies between a database and the application that is using it, which can enhance the performance of your website and decrease the created server load immensely. Anytime a webpage on an application-powered website is accessed, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, since the platform has already cached all of the content that should appear on a particular page. If any content is edited, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the website visitors will never see old data. The Memcached platform is a perfect solution for every Internet site that attracts plenty of visitors, as it will accelerate it and will enhance the overall user experience.

Memcached in Website Hosting

Memcached comes as an upgrade with each and every website hosting package that we are offering and you’ll be able to begin using it the moment you order it, since the extension that it needs in order to perform properly is pre-installed on our avant-garde cloud website hosting platform. You can order the upgrade from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with every shared hosting plan and a new Control Panel section where you can manage Memcached will appear. The upgrade is divided into two parts – the instances and the amount of system memory, so as to offer you more flexibility. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that can use Memcached, whereas the second one, which is offered in increments of 16 MB, indicates the total size of the content that can be cached by the system. A popular site with a very large database may require more memory in order to take an even bigger advantage of Memcached, so if you would like to upgrade this feature, you’ll be able to do it at any given point with a few clicks.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached with ease, since the distributed memory caching platform’s activation requires a couple of clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension that it requires is pre-installed on our servers, so you can start using the Memcached caching platform the moment you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much content it will cache, in other words – there are two separate upgradable features – the number of instances and the amount of system memory. You can order more of both, so if one of your sites becomes very popular, for instance, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is stunningly flexible in this regard and we do not tie a particular number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can use the Memcached caching platform to speed up any script-powered Internet site, including those based on popular software applications, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Hosting

Memcached is offered by default with every virtual private server offered by us as long as you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel, so you won’t have to pay anything extra to be able to use the full potential of this content caching system. The more powerful VPS package you select, the more memory Memcached will have for information caching purposes, but you will have at least several hundred megabytes at all times, which is much more than the amount of memory you’d get with a shared web hosting plan. This will permit you to use the Memcached caching system for a lot of websites, regardless of how busy they are, which in turn goes to say that you can use a low-end package for them without overloading the VPS. The Memcached caching system is excellent for script-driven software applications such as Joomla™, OpenCart, WordPress or Mambo, and you can utilize it even with a custom-built app. Shortly after you activate the Memcached system, it will start storing content and you will observe the enhanced overall performance of your websites.

Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you obtain one of our dedicated web hosting and if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel at signup, you will get the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform as standard and you can enable it for any website that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing data as people open your website, so you will see the effect of using it soon after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 GB and normally, the more powerful the dedicate server package, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to use the platform for plenty of Internet sites or for an extremely heavy site without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached caching platform will enable you to accelerate any database-powered website very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal journal, an OpenCart web store, etcetera, and to enhance the overall performance of your server.