APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP Internet sites hold their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content which needs to be viewed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the website visitor. All these actions take some processing time and involve reading and writing on the server for every single page that is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for sites with constantly changing content, there are various Internet sites which offer the same content on a number of of their webpages all of the time - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, etc. APC is very useful for this type of sites as it caches the previously compiled code and displays it each time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. This will not only greatly reduce the server load, but it'll also increase the speed of any Internet site a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use APC with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer since it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our platform is extremely flexible, you can run sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For instance, you could activate APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the releases running on our platform. You can also select if all websites using a particular PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active only for selected Internet sites and not for all sites in the web hosting account. The last option is useful when you wish to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are performed without any difficulty through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can use APC for every script application which is run on your new semi-dedicated hosting as the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be made. 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 certain sites. This is possible as a result of the flexibility of our cloud platform - several releases of PHP run on it at the same time, so with a php.ini file placed in a site folder, you can pick what release will be used for this specific Internet site and whether APC has to be enabled or disabled. Employing such a file enables you to use settings that are different from the standard ones for the account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for many scripts where the module can make a difference and not for others where you may use a different type of web accelerator.