Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is used to cache the output code of script apps. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and could accelerate such an Internet site as much as 3 times. PHP sites are dynamic and whenever a website visitor opens a web page, the script hooks up to a database to get some content, then the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being displayed to the visitor. In case the output code doesn't change however, that is the case with sites which display identical content all of the time, such actions trigger needless reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it every time visitors browse an Internet site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled continuously, that in turn decreases the Internet site loading time. The module could be really efficient for informational Internet sites, blogs, portfolios, etc.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting

You can use APC with each and every shared web hosting package that we offer as it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is rather flexible, you'll be able to run Internet sites with various system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For example, you can enable APC only for one release of PHP or you can do this for several of the releases running on the platform. You can also decide if all Internet sites working with a certain PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active only for selected Internet sites and not for all sites in the website hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you would like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are done effortlessly through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC for each script application which runs on your new semi-dedicated server because the module is already installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be made. Activating or deactivating APC for the account requires one click from the Hepsia Control Panel, but if needed, you could use the module only for certain sites. This is possible because of the flexibility of our cloud platform - several versions of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a site folder, you can choose what release will be used for this particular site and whether APC should be enabled or disabled. Using such a file allows you to use settings which are different from the standard ones for your account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for many scripts where the module makes a difference and not for others where you may use another kind of web accelerator.