APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP sites keep their content inside a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a page. The content that needs to be viewed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the visitor. These actions take some processing time and include reading and writing on the web server for every single page that is opened. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content material, there are numerous sites that feature the very same content on a lot of of their pages all the time - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is extremely useful for this kind of sites as it caches the already compiled code and displays it each time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only decrease the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any website a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Website Hosting

You can use APC with each and every website hosting plan that we provide because it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is really flexible, you'll be able to run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will use APC or not. For example, you could enable APC only for one version of PHP or you could do this for several of the versions that run on our platform. It's also possible to decide if all Internet sites working with a specific PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled only for selected sites and not for all Internet sites in the hosting account. The last option is useful if you'd like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are performed effortlessly via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC with all of our semi-dedicated server solutions and activating this framework is performed with a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you don't have any previous experience, you could use it to quicken your Internet sites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are set up supports multiple PHP versions, you'll have freedom regarding the scripts and web accelerators you'll be able to use. It will take you only a click to allow APC for one or several PHP releases and by using a php.ini file inside the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are not the same as the ones for the account as a whole, you could set what PHP release will be used and whether APC has to be allowed or not. This way, one Internet site may use APC and PHP 5.3, for example, while another one could use some other accelerator and PHP 5.5.