Memcached
What exactly is Memcached? What is the reason for its growing popularity among users who take care of databases?
Memcached is a caching system, which has been gaining popularity in recent years owing to its effectiveness. It is used to cache requests and responses between a database and the app that is using it, which can increase the performance of your Internet site and reduce the created server load substantially. Anytime a page on an app-powered website is opened, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these procedures are skipped, since the platform has already cached the content that should be shown on a given webpage. If any content is edited, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will never see outdated content. The Memcached platform is a perfect solution for every site that attracts plenty of viewers, as it will make it really fast and will improve the overall user experience.
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Memcached in Shared Website Hosting
Memcached comes as an optional upgrade with each and every
shared website hosting account offered by us and if you wish to use it for any script-powered Internet site that you host on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to activate it in a few simple steps via your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be given the option to upgrade two different features – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that can use the Memcached content caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several websites, you can get a handful of instances. The second one has to do with the maximum amount of memory that the system will be permitted to use to cache data, so for multiple websites (or for one single resource-intensive site), you’d better get more memory for better results. The memory is offered in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be added every time you need it. With the Memcached caching system, any script-powered Internet site hosted on our cloud servers will open faster than the speed of light.
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Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you purchase one of our
semi-dedicated server plans, you’ll find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades part of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you want to use it for any of the Internet sites hosted in your semi-dedicated account, you can activate it with only a couple of mouse clicks. The distributed memory object caching platform is perfect for any script-based web app such as WordPress, Joomla
™, or even an in-house built application, and based on your needs, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will use Memcached, i.e. the number of instances; and how much information will be stored, i.e. the amount of system memory that the platform will use. The two features are not bound to each other, so if you’ve got a traffic-heavy website with lots of content, you can order one instance and a larger amount of memory. The Memcached platform will increase the overall performance of your sites soon after you activate it and both you and your visitors will enjoy much faster loading speeds.
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Memcached in VPS Servers
When you purchase a
VPS server from us, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no additional fee, as the distributed memory caching platform comes with all VPSs that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you’ve got resource-consuming sites, you will be able to boost their performance without any effort and the reduced load on the Virtual Private Server will enable you to keep using your current Virtual Private Server hosting plan instead of migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached platform can use to store data depends on the plan that you’re using, but even with a less powerful one, you’ll get at least several hundred megabytes, which is significantly more than what you’d get with a shared package, so the website performance boost will be immense. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform with any database-powered web application, regardless of whether you’ve built it yourself or you are using a ready-for-use one like Joomla
™, OpenCart or WordPress.
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Memcached in Dedicated Servers
If you get one of our
dedicated web hosting plans and if you pick Hepsia as your website hosting Control Panel on the order form, you’ll get the Memcached data caching platform by default and you can activate it for any Internet site that you host on your server without upgrading or installing anything. It will begin caching content as users visit your site, so you’ll see the effects of using it shortly after that. The minimum amount of memory that will be available to the Memcached platform is 3 gigabytes and naturally, the more powerful the dedicated plan, the more memory Memcached will have at its disposal. This amount will enable you to use the platform for multiple websites or for a very busy site without compromising its effectiveness. The Memcached platform will permit you to improve the load speed of any database-powered Internet site very quickly – a Joomla
™ portal, a WordPress blog, an OpenCart store, etcetera, and to enhance the overall performance of your dedicated server.