Memcached is a content caching system, which is used to accelerate the overall performance of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the responses between the website visitor and the server. In simple terms, every time a given page on such a site is requested, the script calls its database to request the information that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks on a hyperlink to visit some other page, the whole procedure is performed again and this generates lots of database queries and high server load, particularly if the site has lots of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so if any of these pages is visited again, the script no longer needs to fetch any content from the database, since everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will increase and you’ll get more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your site faster. Moreover, Memcached updates its cache every time any info in the database is changed, so the site visitors will never end up seeing outdated data.

Memcached in Shared Hosting

Memcached is available as an upgrade with each shared hosting account that we’re offering and in case you want to use it for any script-based website that you host on our avant-garde cloud hosting platform, you will be able to activate it in several simple steps through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will be given the option to upgrade two separate things – the instances and the system memory. The first one has to do with the number of the sites that can use the Memcached content caching system at the same time, so if you need it for several websites, you can get a handful of instances. The second one has to do with the maximum amount of memory that the system will be allowed to use to cache information, so for multiple sites (or for one single resource-demanding site), you may want to get more memory for better performance. The memory is offered in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be ordered at any time. With Memcached, any script-based site hosted on our cloud servers will open much faster.