APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP sites hold their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content which should be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the visitor. All these actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for every single page which is accessed. While this can't be avoided for websites with regularly changing content material, there're many sites which feature the same content on many of their webpages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant websites, etcetera. APC is extremely useful for such Internet sites because it caches the previously compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. This will not only reduce the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any site many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting

You can use APC for your web applications with any of the shared website hosting packages that we offer as it's pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform. Activating it will take just a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel which is provided with our shared plans and a couple of minutes later it'll start caching the code of your applications. Our platform is extremely flexible, so you will be able to use different configurations in accordance with the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you can activate APC for several versions of PHP for the entire account and select the version that each Internet site can use, or you could have the same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC only for specified sites. This is done by putting a php.ini file with a line of program code in the domain or subdomain folder where you need the custom setup.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

APC is provided with all semi-dedicated server plans since it's pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where your account shall be created. In case you wish to use this module, you can enable it with just a single click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and it'll be fully operational within a couple of minutes. Since you may want to use alternative web accelerators for selected websites, our advanced platform will allow you to personalize the software environment in your account. You can activate APC for different releases of PHP or use it only for some Internet sites and not for others. For instance, a Drupal™-based website can function with APC using PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site can function without APC using PHP 5.6. What is needed to do the latter is a php.ini file with a couple of lines in it, so you could run Internet sites with various requirements from the same account.