APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP websites save their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content which needs to be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the visitor. These actions take some processing time and include reading and writing on the server for every single page that is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content material, there're numerous Internet sites that feature the exact same content on a lot of of their webpages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, etcetera. APC is extremely useful for this kind of Internet sites as it caches the already compiled code and shows it any time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only reduce the server load, but it'll also increase the speed of any site many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting

APC is provided with each shared website hosting package that we offer and you can enable it with only a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you want to use it for your web apps. A couple of minutes later the framework will be active and you will notice the faster loading speed of your database-driven Internet sites. As we provide several releases of PHP which could also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to use APC for scripts which require different versions of PHP in the very same account. Our high tech cloud Internet hosting platform is extremely flexible, so if you use another web accelerator for any website and it disrupts APC, you could activate or deactivate the latter for a certain site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can take full advantage of APC with all our semi-dedicated hosting packages and activating the framework is performed with a mouse click in the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you lack previous experience, you will be able to use it in order to accelerate your websites. As the cloud internet hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are set up is compatible with multiple PHP releases, you will have freedom with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you will be able to use. It will take you just a click to enable APC for one or several 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 release will be used and whether APC has to be allowed or not. In this way, one site can use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, while another one may use a different accelerator and PHP 5.5.