APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP sites store their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a page. The content which needs to be viewed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the site visitor. All these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each page that is opened. While this can't be avoided for sites with constantly changing content material, there're many sites that feature the very same content on many of their webpages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, and many others. APC is very useful for this type of websites since it caches the already compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. Not only will this greatly reduce the server load, but it will also increase the speed of any website many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

You can use APC with each cloud hosting package that we provide since it is already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is rather flexible, you will be able to run websites with various requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For instance, you could enable APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the releases running on our platform. You may also choose if all sites using a particular PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be active only for selected sites and not for all sites in the website hosting account. The last option is useful when you would like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out effortlessly through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can take advantage of APC with our semi-dedicated hosting solutions and activating the framework is done with a mouse click in the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you have no prior experience, you'll be able to use it in order to boost your Internet sites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are made supports multiple PHP releases, you'll have flexibility with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you could employ. It will take you just a click to allow APC for one or several PHP versions and by using a php.ini file inside the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are different from the ones for the account in general, you'll be able to set what PHP release will be used and whether APC needs to be allowed or not. In this way, one site could use APC and PHP 5.3, for example, whereas another one could use some other accelerator and PHP 5.5.