APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP websites store their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content which has to be shown is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the site visitor. These actions take some processing time and involve reading and writing on the web server for every single page that is loaded. While this can't be avoided for sites with constantly changing content material, there're many Internet sites which present the exact same content on many of their webpages all of the time - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, etcetera. APC is really useful for this type of sites because it caches the previously compiled code and displays it each time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only reduce the server load, but it'll also raise the speed of any Internet site a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to use APC for your web apps with all of the cloud hosting plans that we offer since it's pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Enabling it will take just a mouse click inside the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared solutions and several minutes later it'll begin caching the code of your software applications. Our platform is quite flexible, so you'll be able to use different configurations depending on the system requirements of your scripts. For example, you will be able to activate APC for several versions of PHP for the whole account and select the version that each site will use, or you can have the exact same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC only for particular Internet sites. You can do this by putting a php.ini file with a line of code within the domain or subdomain folder where you need the customized configuration.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

APC is provided with all semi-dedicated server solutions as it's pre-installed on the cloud website hosting platform where your account shall be created. In case you want to use this module, you'll be able to enable it with just a single click from your Hepsia Control Panel and it'll be fully operational in a couple of minutes. Since you may need to use alternative web accelerators for selected sites, our state-of-the-art platform will enable you to customize the software environment inside your account. You will be able to activate APC for different releases of PHP or use it only for some sites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based Internet site can work with APC employing PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site 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 different requirements in the same account.