APC, which is an acronym for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script application, which can speed up a database-driven website several times. Any time a PHP page is opened, the script pulls the content that has to be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the code, and then the result is shown to the website visitor. While this is necessary for Internet sites with frequently changing content, it is a total waste of processing time and system resources for a site that does not change, for example an informational portal which shows identical content all the time. As soon as the web pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them every time a visitor loads them. As this saves the time to get content from the database and to parse and compile the code, the site will load much faster. APC is really useful especially for scripts with massive source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Web Hosting

You'll be able to use APC for your web apps with any of the web hosting plans that we offer as it is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform. Activating it will take only a single click in the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared plans and a few minutes later it'll start caching the code of your software applications. Our platform is really flexible, so you will be able to use several configurations determined by the system requirements of the scripts. For instance, you can activate APC for several releases of PHP for the whole account and select the version that each website will use, or you could have the exact same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC only for specified sites. This is done by placing a php.ini file with a line of program code inside the domain or subdomain folder where you need the customized setup.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

APC is available with all semi-dedicated hosting packages because it is pre-installed on the cloud website hosting platform where your account shall be created. In case you'd like to use this module, you will be able to activate it with a single click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully operational within a couple of minutes. As you may need to use some other web accelerators for selected websites, our outstanding platform will permit you to personalize the software environment in your account. You can activate APC for different versions of PHP or use it only for some Internet sites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based site can function with APC using PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site can function without APC employing PHP 5.6. All it takes to do the latter is a php.ini file with a few lines in it, so you'll be able to run sites with different requirements from the very same account.