Memcached is a famous memory caching platform, which can enhance the loading speed and the overall performance of your websites greatly if they use an API or a database. This is accomplished by caching the requests to the API/database and the replies that are delivered, so if a visitor searches for some product on your website, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the whole task will be performed notably faster. That goes for all kinds of database-driven applications and not only for e-stores, as every time a page is visited, the application connects to its database to get the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your site open significantly faster, but it will also produce much less load. If any data in the database is edited, the cached replies will also be updated, so the website visitors won’t see any old information.

Memcached in Hosting

You can use the Memcached distributed memory object caching system with all hosting offered by us. It is offered as an optional upgrade, which you can enable with only a couple of clicks via your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more flexibility depending on the websites that you’d like to use it for. The first part concerns the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can get more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve got, the more data will be cached, which may be a very good idea for traffic-intensive websites with very large databases and many visitors. In this way, you can accelerate the loading speed of every script-driven site hosted on our cloud servers without any effort.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you choose to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, as the data caching platform’s activation requires a few mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The required PHP extension is pre-installed on our servers, so you can begin using Memcached the moment you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You’ll be able to choose how many websites can use it and how much data it will cache, i.e. there are two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the amount of memory. You can order more of both, so if one of your Internet sites becomes very busy, for example, you can always order more memory. Our system is rather flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a specific number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can use Memcached to improve the loading speed of any script-powered Internet site, including those that are based on famous web-based apps, such as Joomla™ or WordPress.

Memcached in VPS Servers

Memcached comes by default with all VPS servers ordered with our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it requires in order to perform correctly is compiled when the virtual server is set up, so you can begin using the data caching platform once your new Virtual Private Server is up and running. The system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the lower-end plans, you will get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will permit you to accelerate the performance of numerous websites hosted on the Virtual Private Server at the same time and to lower the load even if you own data-rich script-based online portals with lots of visitors. The caching platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Drupal™ or Joomla™, or a custom-built one, and you will see the better overall performance shortly after you start using it.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

When you purchase one of our dedicated servers and if you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel during the signup process, you will get the Memcached distributed memory caching platform as standard and you can set it up for any Internet site that you host on your server without upgrading or installing anything. It will start storing info as people access your site, so you will detect the results 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 permit you to take advantage of the caching platform for a lot of Internet sites or for an extremely heavy Internet site without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached platform will allow you to increase the loading speed of any database-driven Internet site very quickly – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress weblog, an OpenCart e-store, etcetera, and to enhance the performance of your dedicated server.