Memcached
Discover what Memcached is and how come lots of people use it for their databases.
Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which is used to enhance the speed of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the replies between the visitor and the server. To put it in simple terms, anytime a given web page on such a site is accessed, the script sends a database query to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks a hyperlink to go to some other web page, the whole process is repeated and this generates numerous database requests and high load on the server, especially if the site has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this exchange of information, so if any of these web pages is visited again, the script no longer has to cull any info from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall load speed of your website will "soar" and you will enjoy more happy visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your website faster. Additionally, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache if any info in the database is edited, so the visitors will never see old content.
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Memcached in Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached data caching system with all
hosting that we offer. It is available as an upgrade, which you can enable with only a couple of clicks via your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the websites that you’d like to use it for. The first part reveals the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, while the second one refers to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve added, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for frequently visited sites with large databases and a lot of visitors. In this way, you can optimize the speed of every script-driven website hosted on our cloud servers effortlessly.
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Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you decide to host your websites in a
semi-dedicated server account, you can take advantage of Memcached effortlessly, since the platform’s activation requires several clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The extension that it requires is already installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You’ll be able to choose how many sites can use it and how much data it will cache, in other words – there are two separate upgradable features – the instances and the amount of memory. You can order more of both, so if one of your sites becomes very popular, for instance, you can always get more memory. Our system is rather flexible in this regard and we do not tie a given number of instances to a fixed amount of memory. You can employ the Memcached caching platform to accelerate any script-powered site, including those that are based on widely used web-based apps, such as Joomla
™ or WordPress.