Memcached is a memory caching system, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years thanks to its effectiveness. It is used to cache requests and replies between a database and the app that uses it, which can improve the performance of your site and decrease the generated server load considerably. Anytime a webpage on an app-driven website is accessed, the application connects to the database and "asks" what information should be shown, and then fetches it. With Memcached, these procedures are omitted, since the platform has already cached the content that should be shown on a particular web page. In case any content is changed, the Memcached content is ‘refreshed’ too, so the site visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date data. The Memcached platform is an excellent choice for any website that lures plenty of viewers, since it will make it load faster and will enhance the overall user experience.
Memcached in Shared Website Hosting
If you host script-based sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add the Memcached distributed memory caching system to your hosting package with only a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available instantaneously and, since the extension needed for it is already installed on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, you can begin using it straight away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two separate upgrades related to the number of instances (i.e. how many Internet sites will use Memcached) and to the amount of memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter is available in increments of 16 MB and you can add memory whenever you wish. Logically, the more memory the Memcached caching system is allowed to use, the more data it will cache, so if you own a popular website with a lot of data, you may need more memory so as to be able to take full advantage of the power that Memcached can give you.