Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and will speed up such a site as much as three times. PHP websites are dynamic and any time a website visitor opens some webpage, the script links to a database to get some content, after that the code is parsed and compiled before it is shown to the website visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with Internet sites that show the very same content at all times, these actions trigger excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled code and delivers it every time visitors browse a site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled again and again, which in turn minimizes the website loading time. The module can be quite useful for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, etc.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting
You can use APC with each shared web hosting plan that we provide because it's already set up 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 rather flexible, you will be able to run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For example, you can enable APC only for one version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases running on our platform. In addition, you can select if all sites using a given PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active only for selected websites and not for all websites in the website hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are done without difficulty through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting
APC is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting plans since it is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where your account will be created. If you want to use this module, you can enable it with just a single click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully functional in a couple of minutes. As you may want to use alternative web accelerators for selected Internet sites, our outstanding platform will allow you to customize the software environment in your account. You'll be able to activate APC for different releases of PHP or use it just for some sites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based website can function with APC employing PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site can work without APC employing PHP 5.6. All it takes to do the latter is a php.ini file with a couple of lines in it, so you can run sites with various requirements inside the very same account.