Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers which is employed to cache the output code of script applications. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and can boost such an Internet site as much as 3 times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a website visitor opens a web page, the script links to a database to get some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it is shown to the website visitor. In case the output code does not change however, that is the case with sites that show the exact same content at all times, such actions result in needless reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled code and delivers it any time visitors browse an Internet site, so the database doesn't need to be accessed and the program code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled continuously, which in turn reduces the Internet site loading time. The module can be very efficient for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, etc.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Hosting

You can use APC with each and every hosting package that we offer as it's already set up on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our platform is really 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 release of PHP or you could do this for several of the releases running on the platform. It's also possible to decide if all Internet sites working with a given PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled only for selected websites and not for all sites in the website hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out without any difficulty via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can take full advantage of APC with all of our semi-dedicated server solutions and activating this framework is performed with a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you lack prior experience, you can use it in order to quicken your Internet 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 could employ. It will take you only a click to activate APC for one or a couple of PHP versions and by using a php.ini file in the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are different from the ones for the account as a whole, you could set what PHP version will be used and whether APC needs to be allowed or not. In this way, one Internet site can use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, whereas another one may use a different accelerator and PHP 5.5.