APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP sites keep their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that needs to be viewed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the website visitor. These actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the web server for each and every page which is opened. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content material, there are many Internet sites that offer the exact same content on many of their webpages constantly - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, and many others. APC is quite useful for this kind of Internet sites since it caches the previously compiled code and displays it each time 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 boost the speed of any Internet site a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Hosting

APC is available with every single hosting solution that we offer and you could activate it with only a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your applications. Several minutes later the framework will be working and you will be able to take advantage of the considerably quicker loading speed of your database-driven websites. As we offer different versions of PHP which can also be selected through Hepsia, you will even be able to employ APC for scripts which need different versions of PHP inside the very same account. Our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform is very flexible, so in case you use a different web accelerator for any website and it interferes with APC, you will be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file generated in the domain or subdomain folder.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to use APC for each and every script application that runs on your new semi-dedicated hosting as the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be made. Activating or deactivating APC for the whole account takes a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, but if necessary, you could use the module only for particular Internet sites. This is possible on account of the flexibility of our cloud platform - different versions of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a site folder, you will be able to choose what release will be used for this particular Internet site and whether APC has to be enabled or disabled. Using such a file enables you to use settings that are different from the ones for the account, so you can take advantage of APC for some scripts where the module will make a difference and not for others where you can employ another kind of web accelerator.