Memcached is a data caching platform, which has been gaining popularity in recent years due to its effectiveness. It is used to cache requests and responses between a database and the app that uses it, which can boost the overall performance of your Internet site and decrease the produced load tremendously. Every time a webpage on an application-powered website is visited, the application connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then drags it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, as the platform has already cached all the content that should be shown on a certain web page. When any content is edited, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the website visitors will never see outdated data. The platform is a perfect choice for every website that lures numerous visitors, since it will make it open much faster and will improve the user experience.
Memcached in Web Hosting
Memcached comes as an upgrade with each web hosting account offered by our company and if you want to use it for any script-powered site that you host on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it in a few simple steps through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will get the option to upgrade two separate things – the instances and the system memory. The first one has to do with the number of the websites that can use Memcached simultaneously, so if you need it for several sites, you can get a number of instances. The second one refers to the total amount of memory that Memcached will be able to use to cache content, so for many sites (or for one large site), you should get more memory for better performance. The memory is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be added every time you need it. With the Memcached caching system, any script-driven Internet site hosted on our servers will load lightning-fast.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to take advantage of Memcached with ease, as the data caching platform’s activation takes a few mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension that is required is pre-installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You’ll be able to choose how many websites can use it and how much information it will cache, i.e. there’re two separate upgradable features – the number of instances and the amount of memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely busy, for instance, you can always get more memory. Our system is really flexible in this regard and we do not tie a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of memory. You can employ the Memcached platform to accelerate any script-powered website, including those based on famous software apps, such as Joomla™ or WordPress.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached is available as standard with all VPS servers that are ordered with our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension it requires so as to work properly is compiled when the server is configured, so you can start using the memory caching platform once your brand new virtual server is fully functional. The system memory that Memcached can use depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the less powerful plans, several hundred megabytes will be at your disposal exclusively for this platform. This will permit you to enhance the performance of multiple websites hosted on the Virtual Private Server simultaneously and to reduce the load on the virtual machine even if you manage regularly visited script-driven online portals with a lot of viewers. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Joomla™ or Drupal™, or a custom-made one, and you’ll observe the better overall performance soon after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
When you purchase any of our Linux dedicated service and if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel on the order page, you’ll get the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform as standard and you can enable it for each site that you host on your dedicated server without installing or upgrading anything. It will start storing information as users open your site, so you will detect the result of using it shortly thereafter. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is 3 GB and naturally, the more powerful the dedicated plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for a large number of Internet sites or for an extremely large website without weakening its efficacy. The Memcached platform will allow you to accelerate the speed of any database-driven site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress personal diary, an OpenCart web store, etcetera, and to improve the overall performance of your server.