APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP sites save their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content that should be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the website visitor. These actions take some processing time and involve reading and writing on the server for each and every page that is accessed. While this can't be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content material, there're many sites that have the very same content on a number of of their webpages all of the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is very useful for this kind of sites since it caches the previously compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only minimize the server load, but it will also increase the speed of any Internet site a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

You can use APC with each and every shared hosting package that we provide because it's already set up on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is extremely flexible, you will be able to run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For instance, you could activate APC only for one release of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the releases that run on the platform. You may also decide if all sites using a specific PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled just for selected websites and not for all websites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you would like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are performed without difficulty by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC with our semi-dedicated server packages and activating the framework is performed with a click from the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you don't have any prior experience, you could use it to boost your websites. As the cloud internet hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are created is compatible with multiple PHP releases, you'll have freedom regarding the scripts and web accelerators you can employ. It will take you just a click to allow APC for one or several PHP releases and by using a php.ini file in 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 version will be used and whether APC has to be allowed or not. This way, one site may use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, while another one could use another accelerator and PHP 5.5.