Memcached is a distributed memory caching platform, which is used to optimize the performance of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the responses between the visitor and the server. To put it simply, every time a certain web page on such a site is opened, the script calls its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks on a link to go to a different page, the whole procedure is carried out again and this generates multiple database requests and higher server load, especially if the site has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this exchange of information, so in case any of these web pages is visited again, the script no longer needs to request any data from the database, since everything is delivered by the Memcached platform. Thus, the overall loading speed of your site will "soar" and you’ll get more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to surf through your site faster. What’s more, Memcached updates its cache every time any info in the database is updated, so the site visitors will never wind up seeing outdated data.

Memcached in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use the Memcached object caching system with all Linux cloud website hosting packages that we are offering. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can get with just a couple of clicks via your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It needs an extension, which is already installed on our cloud hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system once you add 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 concerns 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 memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you’ve got, the more content will be cached, which may be a quite good idea for frequently visited websites with large databases and numerous visitors. In this way, you can improve the performance of every script-based site hosted on our servers effortlessly.