Memcached is a popular distributed memory object caching platform, which can increase the speed and the performance of your websites immensely if they use an API or a database. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so if a user searches for a certain product on your website, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to display the results and the whole procedure will be executed noticeably faster. This is valid for all kinds of database-powered apps and not only for online shops, since anytime a specific web page is visited, the app sends a database query to get the data that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your site load noticeably faster, but it will also produce much less server load. If any data in the database is updated, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users will not see any outdated info.

Memcached in Cloud Website Hosting

Memcached is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every cloud website hosting account offered by us and in case you’d like to use it for any script-powered website that you host on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to enable it in several simple steps via your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be offered the option to upgrade two separate features – the instances and the system memory. The first one has to do with the number of the websites that can use the Memcached distributed memory object caching system simultaneously, so if you need it for several sites, you can get a number of instances. The second one has to do with the maximum amount of memory that Memcached will be allowed to use to cache information, so for numerous websites (or for one resource-consuming site), you’d better get more memory for better performance. The memory comes in increments of 16 megabytes and more memory can be ordered every time you need it. With the Memcached caching system, any script-driven Internet site hosted on our cloud servers will load extra-fast.