Memcached is a distributed memory object caching platform, which is used to supercharge the speed of database-driven sites by caching the queries and the responses between the visitor and the server. To put it simply, anytime a particular page on such a website is visited, the script calls its database to get the information that should be displayed to the visitor. In case the latter clicks a hyperlink to visit a different page, the entire operation is carried out again and this generates lots of database queries and excessive load on the server, even more so if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer needs to request any info from the database, since everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your site will "soar" and you’ll have more happy visitors and they will be able to navigate through your site faster. Besides, the Memcached platform updates its cache every time any content in the database is altered, so the visitors will never see old content.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
Memcached comes as an optional upgrade with each and every shared hosting plan offered by our company and in case you would like to use it for any script-based website that you host on our innovative cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to enable it in a few easy steps through your Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you will be given the option to upgrade two separate things – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached distributed memory object caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several sites, you can get a number of instances. The second one has to do with the total amount of memory that the system will be allowed to use to cache info, so for many sites (or for one single large site), you should order more memory for better results. The memory is offered in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be ordered at any moment. With Memcached, each script-based website hosted on our cloud servers will load unbelievably fast.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can add the Memcached object caching platform to any of the semi-dedicated servers offered by us and use its full potential for any script-powered Internet site hosted on our servers. The upgrade is available through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can choose two features – the number of instances and the amount of memory. These things define how many websites can use Memcached and the amount of system memory that it will use to store your content. You can select them separately, since one instance is not bound to a fixed amount of system memory, so you can use lots of memory for a single resource-demanding Internet site, for instance. This feature is available in increments of 16 MB and you can order as much memory as you like. The platform can be used with any script-driven site regardless of its nature, including those that are based on popular applications like Drupal™, Joomla™ or WordPress, and a lot of companies such as Zynga and Wikipedia are already using it to accelerate the performance of their websites.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached comes by default with all VPS plans that are ordered with our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension it needs so as to perform correctly is compiled when the VPS is set up, so you can start using the memory caching platform once your brand new VPS server is up and running. The system memory that the Memcached platform can use depends on the particular Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the less powerful ones, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal exclusively for this platform. This will permit you to accelerate the overall performance of multiple websites hosted on the virtual server simultaneously and to lower the load on the machine even if you manage content-rich script-based sites with a lot of users. Memcached can be used with any script – Joomla™, Drupal™ or Mambo, or a custom-built script, and you’ll notice the better performance soon after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Any dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can start using this object caching system once your server is set up, without having to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the dedicated server that you have selected, but since our servers are pretty powerful and considering the fact that it is likely that you will host resource-hungry Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is 3 gigabytes. This will enable you to optimize the performance of extremely popular websites without efforts and you will notice the difference soon after the Memcached caching system starts caching database requests. You can make the most of the Memcached system with any database-powered website, including those based on popular CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.