Memcached is a caching platform, which is used to supercharge the overall performance of database-powered sites by caching the queries and the responses between the user and the server. Simply put, anytime a certain page on such a website is opened, the script queries its database to fetch the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks on a hyperlink to visit another web page, the whole process is executed again and this results in lots of database calls and higher load on the server, even more so if the website has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this exchange of information, so in case any of these web pages is accessed again, the script no longer has to fetch any information from the database, as everything is delivered by the caching platform. Thus, the overall loading speed of your website will increase and you’ll have more pleased visitors and they will be able to surf through your website much faster. Additionally, the Memcached platform updates its cache whenever any info in the database is updated, so the website visitors will never wind up seeing old data.

Memcached in Website Hosting

You can use the Memcached object caching system with all Linux website hosting that we’re offering. It is offered as an optional upgrade, which you can obtain with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the sites that you would like to use it for. The first one specifies the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, i.e. to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can order more memory in increments of 16 megabytes and the more memory you have ordered, the more data will be cached, which may be a quite good idea for traffic-intensive sites with large databases and plenty of simultaneous visitors. Thus, you can improve the speed of any script-based website hosted on our cloud servers effortlessly.