Memcached is a data caching platform, which is used to supercharge the speed of database-driven Internet sites by caching the calls and the responses between the visitor and the server. To put it simply, anytime a certain web page on such a website is accessed, the script queries its database to get the info that should be displayed to the visitor. In case the latter clicks a hyperlink to go to another web page, the entire process is performed again and this leads to a lot of database requests and higher server load, even more so if the site has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so in case any of these pages is requested again, the script no longer has to request any data from the database, as everything is provided by the Memcached platform. Thus, the overall load speed of your website will increase and you will have more gratified visitors and they will be able to browse your website faster. At the same time, Memcached "refreshes" its cache whenever any data in the database is updated, so the site users will never see outdated content.

Memcached in Website Hosting

You can take advantage of Memcached with all website hosting offered by our company. It is available as an upgrade, which you can activate with just a few clicks from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is already installed on our cloud website hosting platform, so you can start using Memcached the moment you order it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the sites that you want to use it for. The first one reveals the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can add more system memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have added, the more content will be cached, which may be an exceptionally good idea for traffic-intensive websites with very large databases and plenty of visitors. Thus, you can enhance the speed of every script-powered website hosted on our servers with no effort.