APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP Internet sites keep their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that should be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the hosting server for each and every page that is opened. While this cannot be avoided for websites with regularly changing content material, there're many Internet sites which present the very same content on a lot of of their pages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant sites, etc. APC is very useful for this type of Internet sites since it caches the already compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. Not only will this decrease the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any site several times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

APC is provided with each shared hosting package that we offer and you can activate it with only a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your web apps. A few minutes later the framework will be active and you will be able to take advantage of the faster loading speed of your database-driven sites. Since we provide different releases of PHP that could also be selected from Hepsia, you will even be able to employ APC for scripts that require different versions of PHP in the same account. Our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform is extremely flexible, so if you use a different web accelerator for any Internet site and it interferes with APC, you could activate or deactivate the latter for a selected site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.