Memcached is an object caching platform, which is used to enhance the performance of database-driven Internet sites by caching the requests and the replies between the user and the server. In simple terms, anytime a given web page on such a site is opened, the script queries its database to request the info that should be displayed to the website visitor. If the latter clicks on a hyperlink to open another page, the entire operation is repeated and this generates numerous database calls and high load on the server, particularly if the website has a lot of concurrent visitors. Memcached "memorizes" this information exchange, so in case any of these pages is accessed again, the script no longer needs to extract any information from the database, as everything is delivered by the Memcached platform. In this way, the overall loading speed of your website will increase and you will get more pleased visitors and they will be able to navigate through your website faster. Also, the Memcached platform "refreshes" its cache whenever any info in the database is edited, so the site users will never end up seeing old data.
Memcached in Shared Web Hosting
You can use the Memcached object caching system with all Linux shared web hosting packages offered by our company. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can acquire with just a few clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It requires a PHP extension, which is already installed on our cloud web hosting platform, so you can begin using Memcached the moment you add it. The upgrade is divided into two parts, which will give you more versatility depending on the sites that you’d like to use it for. The first part reveals the number of the websites that will use Memcached, or the so-called ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can add more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve got, the more content will be cached, which may be a rather good idea for popular websites with large-size databases and lots of users. In this way, you can supercharge the loading speed of every script-based website hosted on our servers with no effort.