Memcached is a widespread distributed memory object caching platform, which can increase the loading speed and the overall performance of your sites substantially if they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the responses that are returned, so if a visitor searches for a certain product on your Internet site, for instance, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the whole operation will be executed significantly faster. This is valid for all types of database-powered applications and not only for Internet shops, as anytime a specific page is accessed, the application connects to its database to get the data that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your site load much faster, but it will also create much less load. If any data in the database is changed, the cached replies will also be updated, so the site visitors won’t see any out-of-date information.
Memcached in Shared Hosting
You can make use of the Memcached distributed memory caching system with all Linux shared hosting packages that we are offering. It’s offered as an optional upgrade, which you can add with only a few clicks of the mouse via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system as soon as you order it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the sites that you would like to use it for. The first part determines the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one refers to the memory, i.e. to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have, the more content will be cached, which may be a pretty good idea for traffic-heavy sites with very large databases and plenty of visitors. In this way, you can accelerate the loading speed of every script-powered site hosted on our servers without efforts.