Memcached is a popular content caching platform, which can accelerate the speed and the overall performance of your sites greatly in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the database/API and the responses that are returned, so if a user conducts a search for some product on your Internet site, for instance, the database will not have to be accessed to show the results and the whole operation will be carried out significantly quicker. This is valid for all sorts of database-driven applications and not only for Internet shops, as every time a specific web page is accessed, the application sends a request to its database to fetch the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site open significantly faster, but it will also create much less server load. If any data in the database is updated, the cached replies will also be ‘refreshed’, so the users will not see any old information.
Memcached in Shared Web Hosting
Memcached is offered as an optional upgrade with each shared web hosting package that we offer and if you wish to use it for any script-based website that you host on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, you will 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 different features – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that can use the Memcached caching system simultaneously, so if you need it for several websites, you can order a number of instances. The second one refers to the total amount of memory that Memcached will be allowed to use in order to cache data, so for many websites (or for one traffic-consuming site), you may want to order more memory for better performance. The memory is offered in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be ordered at any point. With Memcached, each script-powered Internet site hosted on our cloud servers will open blazing-fast.
Memcached in Dedicated Hosting
Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using the distributed memory caching system the moment the dedicated server is set up, without needing to upgrade or activate anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can employ depends on the very server that you’ve selected, but since our servers are quite powerful and considering the fact that it’s likely that you’ll host resource-heavy websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use is 3 gigabytes. This will enable you to accelerate the overall performance of very large Internet sites with ease and you’ll distinguish the difference soon after Memcached begins caching database requests. You can take advantage of the caching system with any database-driven website, including those based on popular CMSs like WordPress and Joomla™.