Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system, which is used to enhance the load speed of database-powered sites by caching the queries and the responses between the website visitor and the server. Simply put, every time a certain web page on such a site is accessed, the script sends a query to its database to fetch the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. In case the latter clicks on a hyperlink to open some other page, the whole procedure is repeated and this generates a lot of database requests and higher load on the server, even more so if the site has a lot of simultaneous visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so in case any of these web pages is requested again, the script no longer needs to fetch any information from the database, since everything is delivered by the caching platform. Thus, the overall speed of your website will increase and you will enjoy more happy visitors and they will be able to surf through your website faster. Besides, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache when any content in the database is altered, so the website users will never see old data.

Memcached in Shared Website Hosting

Memcached is available as an optional upgrade with each shared website hosting plan that we are offering and in case you’d like to use it for any script-driven Internet site that you host on our avant-garde cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to order it in a few simple steps through your Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be given the option to upgrade two separate things – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that can use Memcached at the same time, so if you need it for several Internet sites, you can get a handful of instances. The second one refers to the total amount of memory that the system will be permitted to use in order to cache data, so for many websites (or for one resource-hungry site), you’d better order more memory for improved performance. The memory comes in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be added every time you need it. With Memcached, each script-based site hosted on our cloud servers will load unbelievably fast.