Memcached is a famous data caching platform, which can enhance the speed and the performance of your Internet sites significantly in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the replies that are delivered, so when a client conducts a search for a given product on your Internet site, for example, the database will not have to be accessed to display the results and the whole procedure will be carried out noticeably quicker. That goes for all types of database-powered applications and not only for web stores, since anytime a particular web page is visited, the application sends a request to its database to get the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your site load much faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any data in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be updated, so the visitors won’t see any outdated info.
Memcached in Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached data caching system with all Linux hosting service that we are offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can enable with just a couple of mouse clicks from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the websites that you want to use it for. The first part reveals the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for frequently visited sites with very large databases and lots of users. In this way, you can supercharge the loading speed of every script-driven site hosted on our servers with no effort.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can get the Memcached distributed memory caching system as an optional upgrade with all our semi-dedicated servers and since it works with any script-based software application, you can use it for any website that you host on our servers, irrespective of what application you have used – Joomla™, WordPress or Mambo, a custom application, etc. You can order the upgrade via the corresponding section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you administer your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two separate features – the 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 the total amount of system memory that the system will be able to use to store your information. The two things are ordered independently for more freedom and one instance does not come with a particular amount of system memory. You can make use of Memcached with any type of website and both you and the site visitors will quickly perceive the difference in the overall performance.
Memcached in VPS Servers
You’ll get Memcached with any of the VPS server packages offered by us when you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the memory caching platform through the Control Panel section with the same name. The activation takes a couple of clicks of the mouse and you’ll distinguish the difference in the performance of your websites almost instantaneously. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can take advantage of to store info depends on the particular VPS hosting package that you’ve chosen, but in any case it will be at least several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple data-heavy websites. You can use Memcached with websites based on WordPress, Joomla™ or any other web application and decrease the load on your virtual server, which will permit you to keep using the current Virtual Private Server hosting plan instead of migrating to a more powerful one, since you simply won’t need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites like Zynga, Reddit and Wikipedia, which is an evidence of its efficacy.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Memcached is available for free with all Linux dedicated service offered by our company and the sole requirement is that the dedicated server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel. You can use the distributed memory caching system for any database-driven website, including those based on widely used web applications – for example, a WordPress blog or a Joomla™-driven social network. Each dedicated machine is tied to a specific amount of memory that the Memcached caching system can use, but the minimum amount you will get is 3 gigabytes, which is sufficient enough to accelerate the loading speed of very popular websites seriously, as this memory will be dedicated to storing the cached data. The Memcached system will start caching info once it’s enabled, so soon thereafter, you will observe the improved overall performance of your websites and the reduced load on your dedicated server. Numerous Internet sites use Memcached to improve their efficacy, including famous ones like Reddit and Wikipedia.