APC, which is an acronym for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script application, that can speed up a database-driven site several times. Each time a PHP web page is accessed, the script pulls the site content that needs to be loaded from a database, parses and compiles the code, and the result is shown to the website visitor. While this is necessary for Internet sites with regularly changing content, it's a total waste of processing time and system resources for a website that doesn't change, such as an informational portal which displays the very same content all the time. Once the web pages for such a website are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them every time a user accesses them. As this saves the time to obtain content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, your Internet site will load significantly quicker. APC is really effective especially for scripts with large source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use APC with each cloud website hosting package that we offer because it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you only a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our platform is extremely flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For example, you can activate APC only for a single release of PHP or you can do this for several of the releases running on the platform. It's also possible to choose if all sites using a certain PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active just for selected sites and not for all sites in the web hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you need to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out without difficulty by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

APC is available with all semi-dedicated server packages because it is pre-installed on the cloud website hosting platform where your account will be created. If you would like to use this module, you will be able to enable it with a single click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully functional in a couple of minutes. As you may want to use other web accelerators for selected websites, our state-of-the-art platform will allow you to personalize the software environment in your account. You will be able to activate APC for different versions of PHP or use it just for some sites and not for others. For instance, a Drupal™-based website can function with APC using PHP 5.4 and a WordPress website can function without APC using PHP 5.6. All it takes to do that is a php.ini file with a few lines in it, so you can run websites with various requirements from the exact same account.