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Question : Is there a shared hosting running memcached ?

Introduction :-

memcached (pronunciation: mem-cache-dee.) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in memory to reduce the number of times the database must be read.

Memcached lacks authentication and security features, meaning it should only be used on servers with a firewall set up appropriately. By default, memcached uses the port 11211.

see more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached

Now back to the question, Is there a shared hosting offer memcached pre-installed ?

There could be shared hosts offering memcached but it doesn’t make sense. If your application utilize memcache, that would probably means that your website is large and create many dynamic pages on the fly, so websites like this usually will not host on shared hosting.  And secondly, memcached lacks of authentication which mean other user on the shared hosting is able to retrieve information from memcached if keys is correct.

You should look for a VPS or dedictaed if you want to utilize memcache – and honestly, that is where it makes more sense. If you legitimately need memcache, then typically you are out of the realm of shared hosting. Typical file caching methods are more then adequate for shared hosting.

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Hostmonster ‘s control panel now comes with easy to use backup and restore tool.

Backup :-

This feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire site or parts of it onto your computer.

The following are backed up and included in a zip file for your convenience:

• Home Directory
• MySQL Databases
• Email forwarders configuration
• Email filters configuration

Full backup :-

You can choose to create an archive of all the files and configurations on your website. (Note: You can only use this to move your account to another server, or to keep a local copy of your files. You cannot restore Full Backups through your cPanel interface.)

Partial backup :-

• You can download only your home directory, in zip format OR
• Download only MySQL databases OR
• Download only Email forwarders and filters.

Partial Restore :-

This feature allows you to restore partial backups you have downloaded from your site.

• Restore home directory
• Restore MySQL databases
• Email forwarders and filters.

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Most people rely on their host to perform backup for them. In fact it should your own responsibility, here is why…

Hosting company do backups of your site for their benefit.
eg. if the box crashes completely and they need to restore all the sites
from that box onto a new one.

All of the files from all the sites on that computer could potentially be jumbled
together on the backup.

Also you have no way of telling when they take a backup and which backup they will restore.

Basically their requirements for keeping backups of your site are different from your requirements for keeping a backup of your site.

If you were to accidentally delete some files from your site and then asked your host to restore them for you then if they were able to locate a suitable backup and restore it for you then they would be justified in charging you for that service since you are
taking staff away from their regular responsibilities to perform a task
that is really your responsibility.

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