Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is employed to cache the output code of script apps. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and can boost such a website as much as three times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a visitor opens a web page, the script hooks up to a database to get some content, then the code is parsed and compiled before it's shown to the website visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that is the case with websites that show the very same content all of the time, these actions trigger excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it every time visitors browse an Internet site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code does not have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly, which in turn lowers the site loading time. The module can be really helpful for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, and many others.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting

You can use APC with each shared website hosting plan that we provide as it is already set up on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is quite flexible, you can run websites with different requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For example, you could enable APC only for a single version of PHP or you can do this for several of the versions running on our platform. In addition, you can choose if all sites using a given PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled only for selected sites and not for all sites in the web hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are carried out without difficulty via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can take advantage of APC with all our semi-dedicated server packages and activating the framework is done with a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you don't have any prior experience, you'll be able to use it to accelerate your websites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are created is compatible with multiple PHP releases, you will have freedom with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you could employ. It will take you only a click to enable APC for one or a couple of PHP releases and by using a php.ini file in the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings which are not the same as the ones for the account as a whole, you could set what PHP version will be used and whether APC has to be enabled or not. In this way, one site may use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, whereas another one may use a different accelerator and PHP 5.5.