Memcached
More and more users use Memcached to raise database performance. What actually is Memcached?
Memcached is an object caching system, which is used to optimize the loading speed of database-powered sites by caching the queries and the responses between the website visitor and the server. In simple terms, anytime a specific page on such a website is opened, the script calls its database to get the information that should be shown to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks a link to open another web page, the whole procedure is performed again and this leads to numerous database requests and high server load, especially if the site has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so if any of these web pages is opened again, the script no longer has to fetch any content from the database, since everything is delivered by the caching platform. Thus, the overall load speed of your site will increase and you will get more satisfied visitors and they will be able to navigate through your website faster. Additionally, Memcached updates its cache whenever any info in the database is updated, so the website visitors will never wind up seeing old data.
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Memcached in Cloud Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached data caching system with all
cloud hosting plans that we offer. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can obtain with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached as soon as you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the Internet sites that you wish to use it for. The first part determines the number of the Internet sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for frequently visited sites with large-sized databases and numerous simultaneous visitors. Thus, you can increase the speed of every script-powered site hosted on our cloud servers with no effort.
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Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you decide to host your Internet sites in a
semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to take advantage of Memcached easily, as the memory caching platform’s activation takes a few clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The PHP extension that it requires is pre-installed on our semi-dedicated servers, so you can begin using the Memcached platform as soon as you add it to your semi-dedicated server account. You’ll be able to choose how many Internet sites can use it and how much information can be cached, i.e. there’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the amount of system memory. You can get more of both, so if one of your sites becomes extremely popular, for example, you can always add more memory to it. Our system is unbelievably flexible in this regard and we don’t tie a specific number of instances to a fixed amount of memory. You can take advantage of the Memcached platform to boost the speed of any script-driven website, including those that are based on popular web applications, such as WordPress or Joomla
™.
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Memcached in VPS Servers
When you obtain a
VPS server from our company, you’ll be able to use Memcached at no additional price, as the data caching platform comes with all Virtual Private Servers ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you run content-loaded sites, you will be able to optimize their overall performance with ease and the lowered load will allow you to continue using your current plan instead of migrating to a more powerful one. The amount of system memory that the Memcached caching platform can use to cache information depends on the package that you’re using, but even with a less powerful one, you’ll get at least several hundred MB, which is considerably more than what you’d get with a shared hosting plan, so the website performance boost will be great. You can take advantage of Memcached with any database-powered web app, regardless of whether you’ve developed it on your own or you’re using a ready-to-use one like OpenCart, Joomla
™ or WordPress.
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Memcached in Dedicated Servers
You can make use of the full potential of Memcached with each
dedicated server offered by our company if you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. A special Control Panel section is dedicated to the caching system and you can start using Memcached for any site hosted on the dedicated machine with just a few clicks. You can optimize the performance of any website, no matter what script-based software application you rely on or how large the Internet site is, as the minimum amount of memory that Memcached will be able to employ is 3 GB and this amount grows seriously with the higher-end dedicated servers. Shortly after the caching system is activated, it will begin caching data anytime someone accesses your site, so, as soon as enough info has been stored, you will see the decreased load on your dedicated server and the improved overall performance of the website. The Memcached system is being used by plenty of sites, including popular portals such as Wikipedia, Zynga and Reddit, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the Memcached system.