APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP Internet sites hold their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a page. The content which needs to be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the site visitor. All of these actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the web server for each and every page that is opened. While this can't be avoided for sites with constantly changing content, there're a lot of Internet sites that feature the exact same content on many of their pages all of the time - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is quite useful for such Internet sites since it caches the previously compiled code and shows it each time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled all over again. This will not only greatly reduce the server load, but it'll also raise the speed of any Internet site several times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Web Hosting

You can use APC with every single web hosting plan that we offer as it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is rather flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For instance, you can enable APC only for a single release of PHP or you can do this for several of the versions running on the platform. You can also select if all Internet sites using a given PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled just for selected websites and not for all websites in the website hosting account. The last option is useful when you intend to employ a different web accelerator for some of your websites. These customizations are performed with ease via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to use APC for each script application which runs on your new semi-dedicated server because the module is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be created. Activating or deactivating APC for the entire account takes one click in the Hepsia Control Panel, but if necessary, you can use the module just for certain Internet sites. This is possible on account 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 will be able to pick what version will be used for this particular site and whether APC has to be enabled or disabled. Employing such a file enables you to use settings which are different from the standard ones for your account, so you can take full advantage of APC for some scripts where the module makes a difference and not for others where you can take advantage of another kind of web accelerator.