APC, which is short for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script app, that could speed up a database-driven site several times. Any time a PHP webpage is accessed, the script pulls the site content that needs to be loaded from a database, parses and compiles the program code, then the result is displayed to the website visitor. While this is necessary for sites with frequently changing content, it's a complete waste of processing time and resources for a site that does not change, like an informational portal that displays identical content on a regular basis. As soon as the pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them any time a visitor accesses them. As this saves the time to obtain content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, your Internet site will load a lot quicker. APC is very useful in particular for scripts with massive source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

You will be able to employ APC for your web applications with any of the shared hosting packages that we offer because it is pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Activating it will take only a click in the Hepsia Control Panel which is provided with our shared solutions and a couple of minutes later it will begin caching the program code of your apps. Our platform is extremely flexible, so you'll be able to use several configurations determined by the system requirements of your scripts. For example, you can activate APC for several releases of PHP for the entire account and pick the version that each website can use, or you could have the exact same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC just for specified websites. This is done by putting a php.ini file with a line of program code within the domain or subdomain folder where you require the custom configuration.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

APC is available with all semi-dedicated server solutions because it is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where your account will be created. If you'd like to use this module, you'll be able to enable it with a single click from your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully functional in a couple of minutes. As you may want to use other web accelerators for selected Internet sites, our state-of-the-art platform will enable you to customize the software environment inside your account. You can activate APC for different versions of PHP or use it only for some websites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based site can work with APC using PHP 5.4 and a WordPress website can work without APC employing PHP 5.6. All it takes to do the aforementioned is a php.ini file with a couple of lines in it, so you can run Internet sites with different requirements inside the exact same account.