APC, which is an acronym for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script app, which can boost a database-driven site several times. Each time a PHP page is accessed, the script pulls the website content which should be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the code, and the result is displayed to the visitor. While this is necessary for Internet sites with routinely changing content, it's a total waste of processing time and resources for a site which does not change, for example an informational portal that shows the exact same content all the time. When the pages for such a site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them whenever a user loads them. As this saves the time to request content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, your website will load considerably faster. APC is very useful in particular for scripts with large source code.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting
APC is provided with each cloud website hosting solution that we offer and you can activate it with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your web apps. Several minutes later the framework will be working and you will be able to take advantage of the considerably faster loading speed of your database-driven sites. As we offer several releases of PHP which could also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to employ APC for scripts that require different versions of PHP inside the same account. Our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform is very adaptable, so in case you use another 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
APC is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting packages since it is pre-installed on the cloud hosting platform where your account will be created. If you wish to use this module, you can enable it with a single click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and it will be fully functional within a couple of minutes. As you may need to use some other web accelerators for selected websites, our state-of-the-art platform will allow you to personalize the software environment inside your account. You will be able to activate APC for different releases of PHP or use it only for some sites and not for others. For example, a Drupal™-based site can function with APC using PHP 5.4 and a WordPress site could work without APC employing PHP 5.6. All it takes to do that is a php.ini file with several lines in it, so you can run Internet sites with various requirements in the very same account.