APC, which stands for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script app, which can speed up a database-driven site several times. Every time a PHP web page is opened, the script pulls the site content that needs to be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and then the result is shown to the visitor. While this is necessary for Internet sites with regularly changing content, it is a complete waste of processing time and system resources for an Internet site that does not change, like an informational portal which shows the very same content all the time. When the webpages for such a site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them whenever a user loads them. As this saves the time to collect content from the database and to parse and compile the code, the Internet site will load considerably quicker. APC is really helpful in particular for scripts with larger source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Web Hosting

You can use APC with every single cloud web hosting plan that we offer as it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is really flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various system requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For instance, you can allow APC only for one version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases that run on the platform. It's also possible to decide if all sites working with a certain PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active just for selected websites and not for all Internet sites in the web hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you wish to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are done effortlessly through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can take full advantage of APC with all our semi-dedicated hosting plans and activating the framework is performed with a mouse click in the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you don't have any previous experience, you'll be able to use it in order to accelerate your sites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are created supports multiple PHP releases, you will have flexibility with regards to the scripts and web accelerators you can employ. It will take you just a click to allow APC for one or several PHP releases and by using a php.ini file inside the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are different from the ones for the account in general, you can set what PHP version will be used and whether APC has to be enabled or not. In this way, one Internet site may use APC and PHP 5.3, for instance, and another one could use a different accelerator and PHP 5.5.