Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers that is used to cache the output code of script apps. It is very efficient for scripts with large source code and can accelerate such a website as much as three times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a website visitor accesses some webpage, the script connects to a database in order to get some content, after that the code is parsed and compiled before it's displayed to the visitor. If the output code does not change however, that is the case with websites which display the same content all the time, such actions result in unnecessary reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled program code and delivers it each time visitors browse a site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the program code does not have to be parsed and compiled again and again, which in turn minimizes the site loading time. The module can be rather efficient for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, and many others.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

APC is available with each shared hosting plan that we offer and you could enable it with just a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your web applications. Several minutes later the framework will be working and you will be able to take advantage of the faster loading speed of your database-driven sites. As we offer several releases of PHP which can also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to employ APC for scripts which require different versions of PHP inside the very same account. Our high tech cloud web hosting platform is extremely adaptable, so in case you use some other web accelerator for any Internet site and it disturbs APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file generated in the domain or subdomain folder.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can use APC with all of our semi-dedicated hosting plans and activating the framework is performed with a click from the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you don't have any previous experience, you can use it to accelerate your sites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are created is compatible with multiple PHP versions, you'll have flexibility regarding the scripts and web accelerators you'll be able to use. It will take you just a click to activate APC for one or several PHP versions and by using a php.ini file in the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are not the same as the ones for the account as a whole, you can set what PHP release will be used and whether APC needs to be enabled or not. In this way, one site may use APC and PHP 5.3, for example, whereas another one can use some other accelerator and PHP 5.5.