Memcached is a widespread distributed memory caching system, which can improve the speed and the overall performance of your websites significantly in case they use a database or an API. This is achieved by caching the calls to the API/database and the replies that are delivered, so when a client conducts a search for a specific product on your site, for example, the database will not have to be accessed to display the results and the entire task will be carried out much faster. This goes for all sorts of database-powered applications and not only for online shops, since every time a web page is visited, the application sends a request to its database to get the content that should be shown. With Memcached, not only will your website open significantly faster, but it will also generate much less load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the site visitors will not see any out-of-date information.

Memcached in Website Hosting

Memcached is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every website hosting account offered by us and if you wish to use it for any script-based website that you host on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it in several easy steps via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll get the option to upgrade two separate things – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that can use Memcached at the same time, so if you need it for several websites, 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 content, so for plenty of sites (or for one traffic-hungry site), you should get more memory for improved performance. The memory is available in increments of 16 MB and more memory can be ordered at any time. With Memcached, each script-powered website hosted on our servers will load unbelievably fast.