Memcached is a content caching system, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years thanks to its effectiveness. It is used to cache queries and replies between a database and the application that uses it, which can improve the performance of your Internet site and reduce the produced server load significantly. Every time a page on an app-driven Internet site is visited, the app connects to the database and "asks" what info should be shown, and then extracts it. With Memcached, these steps are skipped, since the platform has already cached all the content that should show up on a specific page. If any content is changed, the Memcached content is updated too, so the website visitors will never see old content. The Memcached platform is an ideal option for any website that entices lots of visitors, since it will make it amazingly fast and will improve the user experience.
Memcached in Cloud Hosting
The Memcached memory caching system is offered as an optional upgrade with each Linux cloud hosting offered by us and you will be able to start using it the moment you enable it, since the PHP extension that it requires so as to function properly is already present on our avant-garde cloud platform. You can request the upgrade via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes bundled with every hosting plan and a brand new Control Panel section where you can administer Memcached will appear. The upgrade is divided into two parts – the instances and the amount of memory, so as to offer you more versatility. The first one shows the number of the websites that can use Memcached, whereas the second one, which comes in increments of 16 MB, determines the total size of the content that the system can cache. A traffic-intensive Internet site with a large database may require more memory in order to take an even greater advantage of the Memcached caching system, so in case you’d like to upgrade this feature, you’ll be able to do it at any point with several clicks of the mouse.