APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP websites keep their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that should be viewed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the site visitor. These actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each and every page that is opened. While this can't be avoided for websites with constantly changing content, there're many sites which offer the very same content on many of their pages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, etcetera. APC is extremely useful for such Internet sites as it caches the previously compiled code and displays it each time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only lower the server load, but it'll also raise the speed of any website a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting

You can use APC with each shared website hosting plan that we provide because it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is extremely flexible, you'll be able to run sites with different requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For instance, you can activate APC only for one version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases running on the platform. You can also select if all websites using a particular PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled only for selected Internet sites and not for all websites in the web hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you want to employ a different web accelerator for several of your sites. These customizations are done effortlessly by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You’ll be able to use APC for each and every script application which runs on your new semi-dedicated hosting since the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be generated. Activating or deactivating APC for the entire account requires a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, but if needed, you can use the module just for specific websites. This is possible because of the flexibility of our cloud platform - multiple versions of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a website folder, you will be able to select what release will be used for this particular Internet site and whether APC should be enabled or disabled. Using such a file permits you to use settings that are different from the ones for your account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for a lot of scripts where the module will make a difference and not for others where you could take advantage of some other kind of web accelerator.