Memcached is a commonly used data caching system, which can improve the loading speed and the overall performance of your sites drastically if they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the requests to the database/API and the replies that are delivered, so if a user conducts a search for a certain product on your site, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to show the results and the entire task will be performed significantly faster. That goes for all sorts of database-driven apps and not only for online shopping portals, as anytime a particular web page is opened, the application connects to its database to fetch the data that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website open much faster, but it will also generate much less server load. If any content in the database is changed, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users won’t see any outdated information.
Memcached in Shared Web Hosting
If you host script-driven websites in a shared web hosting account with us, you will be able to add Memcached to your web hosting plan with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantaneously and, since the PHP extension needed for it is already installed on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform, you can begin using it straight away. To give you more versatility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (i.e. how many sites will use Memcached) and to the memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter is available in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order memory as many times as you like. Naturally, the more memory the Memcached caching system is allowed to use, the more data it will cache, so if you’ve got a high-demand site with a lot of content, you may need more memory to be able to make full use of the power that Memcached can offer you.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can get the Memcached caching system as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting service and since it works with any script-powered software app, you can use it for each website that you host on our platform, irrespective of what app you have used – WordPress, Joomla™ or Mambo, a custom-created app, etc. You can request the upgrade from the corresponding section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two different features – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. To put it in simple terms, these things determine the number of the sites that will use Memcached and how much memory the system will be able to use in order to store your content. The two features are ordered separately for more flexibility and one instance does not come bundled with a fixed amount of memory. You can make use of the Memcached system with any kind of website and both you and your visitors will quickly detect the difference in the performance.
Memcached in VPS Servers
You’ll get Memcached with any of the VPS server packages that we’re offering when you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you will be able to activate the caching platform through the section with the very same name. The configuration takes several mouse clicks and you’ll detect the difference in the overall performance of your sites almost instantaneously. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can take advantage of to store data depends on the particular VPS plan that you’ve picked, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred megabytes, which is more than enough even for several data-loaded Internet sites. You can use the Memcached platform with sites based on Joomla™, WordPress or any other Internet application and reduce the load on your VPS server, which will enable you to keep using the current Virtual Private Server hosting package instead of migrating to a more powerful one, since you simply won’t need it. Memcached is already being used by popular websites like Zynga, Reddit and Wikipedia, which shows its efficiency.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using the data caching system as soon as the server is fully functional, without having to install or upgrade anything. The amount of memory that Memcached can employ depends on the server that you have picked, but as our servers are unbelievably powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-intensive Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use is three gigabytes. This will permit you to enhance the overall performance of extremely large websites with no effort and you’ll see the difference soon after Memcached begins caching database queries. You can take advantage of the Memcached caching system with any database-powered web portal, including those that are based on widely used Content Management Systems like WordPress and Joomla™.