APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script apps. Dynamic PHP websites save their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a page. The content which should be shown is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the visitor. These actions need some processing time and involve reading and writing on the server for every single page which is accessed. While this can't be avoided for sites with regularly changing content, there're a lot of websites that feature the same content on a number of of their pages at all times - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is extremely useful for this type of Internet sites because it caches the previously compiled code and shows it any time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled all over again. Not only will this minimize the server load, but it will also increase the speed of any site many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use APC with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we provide as it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is rather flexible, you will be able to run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For example, you can activate APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the versions running on our platform. It's also possible to decide if all Internet 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 sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you wish to employ a different web accelerator for several of your sites. These customizations are done without difficulty through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.