Memcached is a data caching system, which is used to increase the speed of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. Simply put, anytime a particular page on such a site is opened, the script sends a query to its database to request the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to open a different page, the entire procedure is executed again and this leads to numerous database requests and higher server load, especially if the site has lots of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so in case any of these pages is visited again, the script no longer needs to extract any info from the database, since everything is provided by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will increase and you will have more gratified visitors and they will be able to browse your site faster. What’s more, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache when any content in the database is changed, so the website users will never see outdated data.
Memcached in Cloud Website Hosting
You can use the Memcached content caching system with all cloud website hosting plans that we’re offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can enable with just a few clicks via your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you order it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will offer you more freedom depending on the sites that you’d like to use it for. The first part reveals 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 add more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for traffic-intensive sites with large-size databases and lots of users. Thus, you can supercharge the speed of every script-based Internet site hosted on our servers effortlessly.
Memcached in VPS Servers
You’ll get Memcached with any of the VPS server plans offered by us in case you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel and you’ll be able to activate the platform through the Control Panel section with the very same name. The setup requires several mouse clicks and you’ll see the difference in the performance of your Internet sites almost momentarily. The amount of memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache content depends on the given Virtual Private Server package that you have chosen, but in any case it won’t be less than several hundred MB, which is more than enough even for multiple resource-heavy sites. You can use the Memcached platform with Internet sites powered by WordPress, Joomla™ or any other web-based app and reduce the load on your virtual machine, which will allow you to keep using the current Virtual Private Server package instead of switching to a more powerful one, since you will simply not need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by popular websites like Zynga, Wikipedia and Reddit, which is an evidence of its efficiency.