Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers that is employed to cache the output code of script applications. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and can speed up such a website as much as three times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a website visitor accesses some web page, the script links to a database to get some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it's displayed to the visitor. In case the output code does not change however, which is the case with websites which show identical content all of the time, such actions result in excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it each time visitors browse a website, so the database does not have to be accessed and the program code does not need to be parsed and compiled continuously, which consequently minimizes the Internet site loading time. The module can be rather efficient for informational sites, blogs, portfolios, etc.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Website Hosting

APC is pre-installed on our leading-edge cloud platform, so you'll be able to use it for your applications whatever the website hosting solution that you select when you sign up. The module can be activated from the Hepsia internet hosting Control Panel which is used to handle the shared accounts and only a few minutes later it'll speed up your Internet sites as it will start caching their program code. If you would like to run sites with various system requirements or use specific web accelerators for some of them, you will be able to customize the software environment by placing a php.ini file in the preferred domain folder. Thus, you can enable or disable APC not only for a particular Internet site without affecting the other sites in the account, but also for a certain version of PHP since our platform supports multiple versions simultaneously.