APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP websites store their content in a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content which should be shown is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the website visitor. All these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each page which is loaded. While this cannot be avoided for websites with regularly changing content, there are a lot of websites which have the exact same content on a lot of of their pages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, etc. APC is extremely useful for this kind of 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 again. Not only will this greatly reduce the server load, but it'll also raise the speed of any website a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting
APC is pre-installed on our advanced cloud platform, therefore you will be able to use it for your web applications regardless of the shared hosting package that you pick when you register. The module can be activated from the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel that is used to take care of the shared accounts and only several minutes later it'll speed up your websites as it will begin caching their code. If you want to run websites with various system requirements or employ different web accelerators for some of them, you can customize the software environment by putting a php.ini file in the preferred domain folder. This way, you can enable or disable APC not only for a specific site without affecting the remaining websites in the account, but also for a specific version of PHP because our platform supports multiple versions simultaneously.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can use APC with all of our semi-dedicated server plans and activating this framework is done with a mouse click in the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you lack prior experience, you'll be able to use it to quicken your Internet sites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are set up supports multiple PHP releases, you will have freedom with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you could employ. It will take you only a click to activate APC for one or several PHP versions and by using a php.ini file in the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings which are different from the ones for the account in general, you could set what PHP release will be used and whether APC needs to be enabled or not. In this way, one Internet site could use APC and PHP 5.3, for example, and another one may use a different accelerator and PHP 5.5.