APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP websites store their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content which has to be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the website visitor. All of these actions take some processing time and include reading and writing on the server for each and every page that is opened. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content material, there are numerous sites which offer the very same content on a number of of their webpages all of the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant websites, etc. APC is quite useful for this type of Internet sites since it caches the previously compiled code and displays it any time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled again. Not only will this minimize the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any website a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting

You can use APC with each shared website hosting package that we provide as it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is rather flexible, you will be able to run sites with various system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For example, you could enable APC only for one release of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases running on our platform. It's also possible to decide if all websites working with a given PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be active only for selected websites and not for all sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you would like to employ a different web accelerator for several of your websites. These customizations are done with ease through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC for each and every script application which runs on your new semi-dedicated server as the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be made. Activating or deactivating APC for the entire account requires a single click from the Hepsia Control Panel, but if necessary, you could use the module only for specific Internet sites. This is possible as a result of the versatility of our cloud platform - several releases of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a website folder, you will be able to pick what release will be used for this particular site and whether APC should be enabled or disabled. Employing such a file permits you to use settings that are different from the ones for the account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for a lot of scripts where the module makes a difference and not for others where you may use another kind of web accelerator.