Memcached is a popular data caching system, which can improve the speed and the overall performance of your Internet sites tremendously if they use a database or an API. This is accomplished by caching the requests to the database/API and the responses that are returned, so when a user searches for a particular product on your site, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to display the results and the whole operation will be executed much quicker. That goes for all types of database-driven applications and not only for e-commerce portals, since every time a particular web page is accessed, the application sends a database query to fetch the data that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website load considerably faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any data in the database is updated, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users won’t see any outdated information.
Memcached in Website Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached data caching system with all website hosting plans that we offer. It’s available as an upgrade, which you can activate with only a few clicks of the mouse from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is already installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can start using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you wish to use it for. The first one defines the number of the sites that will use Memcached, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the system memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve added, the more data will be cached, which may be a good idea for popular websites with large-size databases and lots of visitors. Thus, you can enhance the loading speed of any script-based website hosted on our servers with ease.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you order one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades part of your Hepsia Control Panel, so if you wish to use it for any of the sites hosted in your semi-dedicated account, you can add it with just a few clicks. The data caching platform is ideal for any script-driven app such as Joomla™, WordPress, or even an in-house made one, and depending on your needs, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will use the Memcached caching platform, i.e. the number of instances; and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory that the platform will use. The two features are not bound to each other, so if you own a traffic-hungry website with lots of content, you can get one instance and a large amount of system memory. Memcached will improve the performance of your websites soon after you activate it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy faster load speeds.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached is available by default with all VPS servers that are ordered with our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension it requires to work correctly is compiled when the VPS is configured, so you can start using the distributed memory object caching platform as soon as your brand-new Virtual Private Server is up and running. The memory that the Memcached caching platform can use depends on the particular plan, but even with the lower-end ones, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal for this platform exclusively. This will allow you to enhance the performance of numerous websites hosted on the VPS at the same time and to lower the load on the machine even if you run large-scale script-driven portals with a lot of users. Memcached can be used with any script – Mambo, Joomla™ or Drupal™, or a custom-made script, and you will see the better performance shortly after you start using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
When you order any of our Linux dedicated web hosting plans and if you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel during the signup procedure, you’ll get the Memcached distributed memory object caching platform as standard and you can activate it for any Internet site that you host on your dedicated machine without upgrading or installing anything. It will begin storing information as users open your website, so you’ll notice the result of using it soon thereafter. The minimum amount of system memory that will be available to the caching platform is 3 gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will permit you to use the platform for a lot of websites or for a very large website without weakening its efficiency. The Memcached caching platform will permit you to boost the load speed of any database-powered site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress online journal, an OpenCart e-store, etcetera, and to enhance the overall performance of your dedicated machine.