Memcached is a caching platform, which has been gaining in popularity lately owing to its effectiveness. It is used to cache calls and replies between a database and the app that uses it, which can increase the performance of your site and reduce the produced load drastically. Anytime a web page on an application-powered website is visited, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then pulls it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, since the platform has already cached the content that should be displayed on a particular web page. When any content is edited, the Memcached content is updated as well, so the website visitors will never end up seeing old content. The Memcached platform is a perfect option for any site that draws lots of viewers, since it will accelerate it and will enhance the user experience.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

Memcached is available as an optional upgrade with each shared hosting plan that we are offering and you will be able to start using it once you activate it, since the extension that it needs in order to perform properly is pre-installed on our innovative cloud hosting platform. You can request the upgrade from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with each web hosting plan 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 system memory, so as to give you more flexibility. The first one refers to the number of the sites which can use Memcached, while the second, which is offered in increments of 16 megabytes, specifies the total size of the content that the system can cache. A busy Internet site with a very large database may require more memory to take an even greater advantage of Memcached, so if you wish to upgrade this feature, you will be able to do it at any moment with a couple of mouse clicks.

Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you choose to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, since the caching platform’s setup takes several clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. The PHP extension that it requires is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can start using Memcached the moment you add it to your account. You will be able to select how many websites can use it and how much content it will cache, in other words – there are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your websites becomes very popular, for example, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is pretty flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a given number of instances to a fixed amount of memory. You can use the Memcached platform to improve the loading speed of any script-driven Internet site, including those based on famous Internet apps, such as WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in VPS Servers

If you acquire a VPS server from our company, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no extra fee, as the caching platform comes with all VPSs ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you’ve got heavy Internet sites, you will be able to improve their overall performance without any effort and the reduced load on the virtual server will enable you to keep your current VPS plan instead of switching to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache content depends on the plan that you’re using, but even with a lower-end one, you’ll get no less than several hundred megabytes, which is considerably more than what you’d get with a shared web hosting package, so the website performance boost will be immense. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform with any database-driven web application, regardless of whether you’ve set it up yourself or you’re using a ready-made one like OpenCart, WordPress or Joomla™.

Memcached in Dedicated Servers

If you buy one of our dedicated servers and if you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel on the order form, you’ll get the Memcached memory caching platform as standard and you can enable it for any website that you host on your dedicated machine without installing or upgrading anything. It will begin storing content as users open your Internet site, so you’ll see the effect of using it shortly after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the platform is three gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the dedicate server plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to use the caching platform for multiple websites or for an extremely popular site without weakening its efficiency. The Memcached caching platform will allow you to improve the speed of any database-driven site in no time – a Joomla™ portal, a WordPress weblog, an OpenCart web shop, etc., and to enhance the overall performance of your dedicated machine.