Memcached is a caching platform, which has been gaining popularity lately because of its effectiveness. It is used to cache requests and replies between a database and the app that’s using it, which can accelerate the overall performance of your site and reduce the generated load drastically. Anytime a webpage on an application-driven website is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be displayed, and then drags it. With Memcached, these procedures are skipped, as the platform has already cached all of the content that should be shown on a particular page. When any data is updated, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the users will never see old data. The platform is a perfect choice for every website that lures numerous viewers, since it will accelerate it and will enhance the overall user experience.
Memcached in Web Hosting
The Memcached caching system comes as an upgrade with each and every Linux web hosting package offered by our company and you’ll be able to begin using it once you activate it, since the PHP extension that it requires so as to perform properly is pre-installed on our innovative cloud platform. You can order the upgrade from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each hosting package and a brand new section where you can manage Memcached will show up. The upgrade is divided into two parts – the instances and the amount of memory, so as to give you more flexibility. The first one refers to the number of the websites which can use Memcached, while the second one, which is available in increments of 16 MB, specifies the total size of the content that the system can cache. A traffic-intensive Internet site with a large database may need more memory to take an even greater advantage of Memcached, so in case you want to upgrade this feature, you will be able to do it at any given point with several clicks of the mouse.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to take advantage of Memcached with ease, as the distributed memory object caching platform’s activation takes a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The required PHP extension is already installed on our servers, so you can begin using the Memcached caching platform as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You will be able to select how many Internet sites can use it and how much content can be cached, in other words – there’re two different upgradable features – the number of instances and the memory. You can order more of both, so if one of your websites becomes very busy, for instance, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is stunningly flexible in this regard and we don’t bind a specific number of instances to a pre-defined amount of memory. You can take advantage of the Memcached caching platform to accelerate any script-driven Internet site, including those based on famous web-based apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.
Memcached in VPS Web Hosting
Memcached comes by default with all Linux VPS web hosting that are ordered with our custom Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension it needs so as to perform properly is compiled when the Virtual Private Server is configured, so you can begin using the content caching platform as soon as your brand new server is up and running. The system memory that Memcached can use depends on the given VPS plan, but even with the low-end plans, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will allow you to optimize the overall performance of multiple websites hosted on the server at the same time and to reduce the load on the machine even if you run traffic-heavy script-based web portals with multiple users. The Memcached platform can be used with any script – Drupal™, Joomla™ or Mambo, or a custom-developed one, and you’ll distinguish the faster performance shortly after you begin using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers Hosting
Any dedicated server ordered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can begin using the distributed memory object caching system as soon as the dedicated server is completely operational, without the need to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the dedicated server that you have chosen, but as our servers are pretty powerful and due to the fact that it’s likely that you will host resource-hungry sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the system can use will be 3 gigabytes. This will enable you to optimize the overall performance of very heavy sites without any effort and you will observe the difference soon after the Memcached system starts caching database queries. You can use the caching system with any database-powered site, including those that are based on popular CMSs such as Joomla™ and WordPress.