Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers that is used to cache the output code of script apps. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and could boost such a website as much as three times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a visitor opens some web page, the script connects to a database in order to get some content, then the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being shown to the website visitor. In case the output code does not change however, which is the case with Internet sites that show identical content all of the time, these actions result in excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled code and delivers it every time visitors browse a site, so the database does not have to be accessed and the program code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled over and over again, that in turn minimizes the website loading time. The module can be pretty useful for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, etc.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

APC is provided with each cloud website hosting plan that we offer and you can activate it with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you want to use it for your web applications. Several minutes later the framework will be working and you will experience the considerably faster loading speed of your database-driven websites. Since we provide several releases of PHP that can also be selected from Hepsia, you will even be able to use APC for scripts which need different versions of PHP inside the same account. Our advanced cloud web hosting platform is extremely flexible, so if you use an alternative web accelerator for any Internet site and it interferes with APC, you could activate or deactivate the latter for a particular site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.

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 because the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be created. Activating or deactivating APC for the whole account takes a single click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, but if needed, you could use the module only for particular sites. This is possible because of the versatility 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 select what version will be used for this particular site and whether APC needs to be enabled or disabled. Employing such a file permits you to use settings that are different from the standard ones for your account, so you'll be able to take advantage of APC for some scripts where the module will make a difference and not for others where you can use a different type of web accelerator.