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# cPanel Memcached

## cPanel Memcached

[Memcached](https://memcached.org/) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read.

### Activate Memcache and Memcached from PHP Selector

1. Login into your cPanel account
2. Go to **Select PHP version**
3. **Enable memcache and memcached extensions**

For more information about PHP Selector, please refer to the following [article](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/635) .

### Activate Memcached server for your account

1. Login to cPanel

2. Click on “**Mocha Memcached”**

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_memcached/cpanel_memcached_1.png)

3. Enable Memcached for your cPanel account by clicking on **“Enable”** button

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_memcached/cpanel_memcached_2.png)

4. Start Memcached server by clicking on **“Start”** button

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_memcached/cpanel_memcached_3.png)

5. Your service is ready, you should make sure that the Memcached **status is running** as in below example.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_memcached/cpanel_memcached_4.png)

The next most important thing is path to your Memcached server socket, which should be configured in your applications. Default path is **/home/YourUser/memcached.sock**, as in above example.