APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP Internet sites hold their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a page. The content that needs to be shown is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the site visitor. These actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the hosting server for each and every page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for websites with regularly changing content, there are many sites which feature the exact same content on a lot of of their webpages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is very useful for such sites since it caches the previously compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled all over again. This will not only decrease the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any site a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting
APC is provided with every single shared hosting solution that we offer and you could enable it with just a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your web applications. Several minutes later the framework will be working and you will notice the considerably quicker loading speed of your database-driven sites. Since we provide different versions of PHP that can also be selected from Hepsia, you will even be able to use APC for scripts that need different versions of PHP in the very same account. Our high tech cloud web hosting platform is extremely flexible, so if you use another web accelerator for any website and it disturbs APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a specific site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.