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 efficient for scripts with large source code and could speed up such a website as much as three times. PHP sites are dynamic and whenever a website visitor opens a page, the script connects to a database in order to get some content, after that the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being displayed to the site visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with websites which show identical content all of the time, these actions result in unneeded reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it whenever visitors browse a website, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code does not need to be parsed and compiled again and again, which consequently decreases the site loading time. The module can be rather helpful for informational Internet sites, blogs, portfolios, and many others.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

You can use APC with each cloud hosting plan that we offer because it is already set up on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is quite flexible, you'll be able to run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can enable APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do this for several of the versions running on the platform. You may also decide if all sites working with a particular PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled just for selected websites and not for all Internet sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you intend to employ a different web accelerator for several of your websites. These customizations are carried out with ease through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can use APC for each script application which runs on your new semi-dedicated server since the module is already installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be created. Activating or deactivating APC for the whole account takes a single click from the Hepsia Control Panel, but if needed, you can use the module just for particular Internet sites. This is possible as a result of the flexibility of our cloud platform - different releases of PHP run on it simultaneously, so with a php.ini file placed in a site folder, you'll be able to select what release will be used for this particular website and whether APC should be enabled or disabled. Using such a file allows you to use settings which are different from the standard ones for the account, so you'll be able to take full advantage of APC for some scripts where the module can make a difference and not for others where you can use some other kind of web accelerator.