APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP Internet sites keep their content in a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content that needs to be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the site visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and involve reading and writing on the web server for each page which is opened. While this cannot be avoided for websites with constantly changing content, there are many sites which offer the very same content on a lot of of their pages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant websites, etc. APC is very useful for such websites since it caches the already compiled code and shows it each time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. This will not only lower the server load, but it'll also increase the speed of any site a few times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

You can use APC with each cloud hosting plan that we provide since it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you only a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is rather flexible, you can run websites with different system requirements and decide whether they will use APC or not. For instance, you can enable APC only for a single release of PHP or you could do this for several of the versions running on our platform. You may also choose if all sites working with a specific PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled just for selected sites and not for all Internet sites in the web hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you would like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out without difficulty through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.