APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP sites save their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content which has to be shown is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the visitor. All of these actions take some processing time and include reading and writing on the hosting server for every single page that is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for websites with regularly changing content, there are numerous sites that have the very same content on many of their pages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant websites, etcetera. APC is extremely useful for this kind of websites because it caches the previously compiled code and displays it any time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. This will not only minimize the server load, but it'll also boost the speed of any site many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting

You can use APC with every single shared web hosting plan that we offer since it is already set up on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is really flexible, you can run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can activate APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do this for several of the versions that run on our platform. You can also decide if all Internet sites working with a given PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled only for selected sites and not for all websites in the web hosting account. The last option is useful if you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are carried out effortlessly via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can take advantage of APC with all of our semi-dedicated server packages and activating this framework is done with a click from the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you lack previous experience, you will be able to use it in order to accelerate your sites. As the cloud internet hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are created supports multiple PHP releases, you'll have freedom with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you will be able to use. It will take you only a click to allow APC for one or a couple of 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 in general, you'll be able to set what PHP release will be used and whether APC has to be allowed or not. This way, one Internet site can use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, while another one could use some different accelerator and PHP 5.5.