Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers that is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and could boost such a site as much as three times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a website visitor accesses some web page, the script connects to a database in order to retrieve some content, then the code is parsed and compiled before it is shown to the guest. If the output code doesn't change however, that is the case with websites that display the same content all the time, such actions result in excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it every time visitors browse an Internet site, so the database doesn't have to be accessed and the program code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled again and again, which consequently decreases the Internet site loading time. The module can be rather efficient for informational Internet sites, blogs, portfolios, etcetera.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Web Hosting

You can use APC with each and every web hosting package that we offer because it is already present on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is quite flexible, you can run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can allow APC only for a single release of PHP or you can do this for several of the versions that run on our platform. In addition, you can choose if all websites using a particular PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled only for selected Internet sites and not for all sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you need to employ a different web accelerator for several of your Internet sites. These customizations are performed effortlessly via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.