Memcached is a widespread distributed memory caching platform, which can accelerate the loading speed and the performance of your sites considerably if they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the requests to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so if someone conducts a search for some product on your site, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to show the results and the whole operation will be executed noticeably quicker. This is valid for all kinds of database-powered applications and not only for Internet shops, as every time a given page is visited, the app sends a query to its database to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website load significantly faster, but it will also generate much less server load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached replies will also be updated, so the site visitors will not see any old information.

Memcached in Hosting

The Memcached distributed memory caching system is available as an upgrade with each hosting that we are offering and you’ll be able to start using it the moment you add it, since the extension that it needs in order to work correctly is already present on our avant-garde cloud website hosting platform. You can order the upgrade from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each hosting plan and a brand-new section where you can manage Memcached will appear. The upgrade is separated into two parts – the instances and the amount of system memory, so as to offer you more flexibility. The first one shows the number of the websites that can use Memcached, while the second, which is available in increments of 16 megabytes, specifies the total size of the content that the system can cache. A traffic-heavy site with a large-size database may need more memory to take an even greater advantage of Memcached, so if you wish to upgrade this service, you’ll be able to do it at any given point with a few mouse clicks.