APC, which stands for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script app, which can speed up a database-driven site several times. Each time a PHP web page is accessed, the script pulls the website content that needs to be loaded from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and the result is displayed to the website visitor. While this is necessary for sites with regularly changing content, it is a waste of processing time and system resources for a website that does not change, for example an informational portal which displays identical content at all times. When the pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them any time a user loads them. As this saves the time to obtain content from the database and to parse and compile the code, your Internet site will load considerably faster. APC is very useful particularly for scripts with massive source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

APC is available with every single shared hosting solution that we offer and you can activate it with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you'd like to use it for your applications. A few minutes later the framework will be working and you will notice the faster loading speed of your database-driven sites. As we offer several releases of PHP that can also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to employ APC for scripts that require different versions of PHP in the very same account. Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform is very adaptable, so in case you use some other web accelerator for any website and it disrupts APC, you could activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC for each script application that is run on your new semi-dedicated server as the module is already installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be created. Activating or deactivating APC for the account takes a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, but if necessary, you could use the module just for specific websites. This is possible on account of the versatility of our cloud platform - multiple releases of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a website folder, you can pick what release will be used for this specific site and whether APC needs to be enabled or disabled. Employing such a file allows you to use settings which are different from the standard ones for your account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for some scripts where the module makes a difference and not for others where you may use another type of web accelerator.