APC, which means Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script app, that could speed up a database-driven website several times. Any time a PHP page is accessed, the script pulls the site content that has to be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and then the result is displayed to the website visitor. While this is necessary for sites with routinely changing content, it is a total waste of processing time and system resources for a website which does not change, like an informational portal that displays the same content all the time. When the webpages for such a site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them any time a website visitor opens them. As this saves the time to collect content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, the Internet site will load considerably faster. APC is very useful particularly for scripts with massive source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Website Hosting

APC is available with each website hosting package that we offer and you can activate it with only a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you'd like to use it for your web applications. A few minutes later the framework will be active and you'll notice the quicker loading speed of your database-driven websites. Since we provide several releases of PHP that could also be selected through Hepsia, you'll even be able to to use APC for scripts that require different versions of PHP in the same account. Our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform is extremely flexible, so in case you use some other web accelerator for any Internet site and it interferes with APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the latter for a specific site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

APC is available with all semi-dedicated server packages because it's pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where your account will be created. In case you'd like to use this module, you will be able to enable it with a single click from your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully operational within a couple of minutes. Since you may need to use other web accelerators for selected sites, our outstanding platform will permit you to customize the software environment in your account. You'll be able to activate APC for different versions of PHP or use it only for some Internet sites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based site can work with APC employing PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site could work without APC employing PHP 5.6. All it takes to do the latter is a php.ini file with a couple of lines in it, so you can run Internet sites with different requirements from the same account.